Harvey Weinstein violated his bail conditions by mishandling his electronic ankle monitor, which left his whereabouts unrecorded for hours at a time, a New York prosecutor argued Friday. 9News
Those outcomes are unlikely to happen in Weinstein's case, which is scheduled to go to trial in January.
But poorer defendants who have been hauled into courthouses for lesser offences have ended up in jail if they can't afford a bail of even a few hundred dollars. The reforms were motivated in part by the case of Kalief Browder, who was denied bail after he was arrested at age 16 on a charge that he stole a bag, and then spent three years in custody before the case was dropped without a trial. He later killed himself.
Weinstein's deep pockets have given him plenty of freedom as he awaits trial on the charges, which could put him in jail for the rest of his life
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