BUFFALO, N.Y. – A lawyer for convicted movie producer Harvey Weinstein on Monday challenged Weinstein's extradition to California to face charges of assaulting five women, citing a paperwork technicality after his requests for a “humanitarian” delay to attend to Weinstein's medical needs were rejected.
Weinstein, 69, appeared via video before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth Case from the maximum security Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo, where he has been imprisoned since last spring after being convicted in New York City of a criminal sex act and third-degree rape.
He is charged in California with assaulting five women in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills from 2004 to 2013. Defense attorney Norman Effman argued that because the