I mean, that isn't some kind of bad thing. Appeals courts are there to catch bad prosecution. They're supposed to protect citizens from the system failing to work as intended.

Now, the fact that it's a rich fuck that can afford attorneys to do the work to make the appeal happen and most people couldn't sucks. That's a major flaw of the system, that throwing money at it means you're gong to end up with unbalanced outcomes, but unless the decision handed down was not based in fact, a successful appeal is a good thing.

Fuck Weinstein, but this isn't about him in specific.

Turns out the judge on his 2020 conviction was caught doing some questionable shit.

He's still going to be serving time for the 2022 conviction.

Does anyone know the basis for this judgement? I consciously avoid looking up news because the world is terrible and it makes me depressed. But getting it filtered through Lemmy is somehow easier to digest because we support one another in viewing terrible things as terrible.

NY case likely will be retried and this doesn't affect the 16 years or whatever in California.

Ah, the same appellate court that saved Trump's assets from being seized with only 20 min to spare.