Harvey Weinstein’s overturned conviction, explained by a lawyer

Harvey Weinstein in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on October 4, 2022, in Los Angeles, California.  | Etienne Laurent/Getty Images

A public defender on the judge at the first Weinstein trial: “He was behaving like a prosecutor.”

For the past seven years, Harvey Weinstein has been the bogeyman of popular culture. His depravity seems to the public to be so established that other monstrous men’s misconduct is measured by his misdeeds: Well, sure, he might have done something wrong...