Incarcerated intercourse predator Harvey Weinstein is begging a decide to permit remedy from a non-public dentist to repair his rotten tooth to stop a jail medic from extracting all of them.
The prisoner and disgraced Hollywood mogul sat in a wheelchair in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday as he pleaded with the decide.
“This example is an emergency,” Weinstein lamented. “I’ll pay for the dentist… will probably be one journey and one journey solely.”
“I’m in ache each day,” the previous film producer continued. “And I can’t eat as a result of I’m lacking tooth.”
Weinstein just lately visited a dentist on the Twin Towers Correctional, the place he’s locked up, twice, however his dental issues persist, famous LA Superior Courtroom Choose Lisa Lench.
The dentist warned the 70-year-old rapist they’ll solely that can both pull his tooth out with out substitute or go away them to proceed to rot, Weinstein’s lawyer Mark Werksman mentioned.
Prohibiting Weinstein from entry to enough dental care is a violation of his constitutional rights and the holes within the entrance of his decaying tooth make him look “ridiculous and “like a caricature,” Werksman told the decide.
Whereas Weinstein can afford to pay for transportation from the jail to a non-public dentist, the sheriff’s division must make an exception for Weinstein that different inmates aren’t afforded, Lench contends. Werksman should now write a proper request justifying Weinstein’s want for personal remedy for the decide’s evaluation.
Weinstein made the request for dental remedy as prosecutors in the course of the listening to requested for 2 witnesses who reside in Italy to testify remotely fairly than in particular person.
The decide dominated one of many witnesses, Lubov Smirnova, who labored for one among Weinstein’s accusers, to look in particular person, however allowed the opposite witness, Pascal Vicedomini, to look by video for medical causes.
In March, Weinstein was sentenced in a Manhattan legal courtroom to 23 years for sexually assaulting a former assistant and raping an aspiring younger actress.
He was acquitted on probably the most critical cost, predatory sexual assault, which carried a possible life sentence.
In August, New York’s highest courtroom agreed to listen to Weinstein’s attraction of his 2020 rape and sexual assault conviction.
Weinstein, who’s presently locked up in California, could also be launched from jail on bail if the case goes to retrial.
