The judge set his retrial date for April 15, previously refusing to move the proceedings forward.
The lawyer for disgraced Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein has called for him to be tried "with fresh eyes" when he is retried for rape and sexual assault. 
The 72-year-old Weinstein looked frail as he appeared in a Manhattan courtroom for a hearing ahead of a retrial on the legal grounds following the overturning of his convictions in 2020. 
The judge set his retrial date for April 15, having previously declined to move the proceedings forward. 
The lawyer for the former movie mogul, who is in poor health and underwent emergency heart surgery last year, said "you have to look at this with a new eye." 
The judge in the case, Curtis Farber, said "everything is being done anew." 
Weinstein, who did not speak during the hearing, is serving a 16-year prison sentence after being convicted on separate rape charges in California. 
His New York sentence in 2020 was for rape and sexual assault of an actress and for forcibly performing oral sex on a production assistant. 
He was sentenced to 23 years in prison in that case. 
But the New York Court of Appeals overturned the conviction. 
The charges against Weinstein helped launch the #MeToo movement in 2017 - a watershed moment for women fighting sexual assault. 
More than 80 women have accused him of harassment, sexual assault or rape, including famous actresses Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ashley Judd. 
Weinstein claims that the sexual relations in question were consensual. 
Another lawyer for Weinstein, Arthur Aidala, said that "what happened was consensual and therefore there was no victim." 
Weinstein and his brother Bob are co-founders of Miramax Films. 
Among their hits are 1994's "Pulp Fiction" and 1998's "Shakespeare in Love," for which Weinstein shared the Oscar for best picture. | BGNES