The filing added: “Mr Weinstein had a right to a fair trial by an impartial jury. The trial court should have exercised the utmost vigilance in protecting this most important right of the defendant.
“Instead, the trial court was cavalier in its obligation to safeguard this right and the consequences for Mr Weinstein were disastrous.”
Weinstein, a prolific film producer, was once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood before his downfall in October 2017 ignited the #MeToo movement.
Multiple women came forward in the New York Times and New Yorker to accuse Weinstein of sexual assault and inappropriate behaviour, triggering a wider reckoning for men accused of abuse.
A Rangers fanatic who slashed car tyres of GAA fans who’d parked in the cemetery his mum is buried in has been charged with urinating on graves.
Sectarian super-Prod Gary McBlain was listed to appear at Omagh Magistrates Court on Tuesday where he faces four counts of indecent behaviour.
The 42-year-old of McClay Park, Omagh, is accused of urinating on graves on four occasions in Greenhill Cemetery on the Gortin Road in the town on June 29, August 17, 28 and 31 last year.
Last November we revealed McBlain had been interviewed by police about the alleged incidents after cemetery staff had alerted them having seen someone urinating on graves on their newly-installed CCTV cameras.
In a tribute, his parents said: Mommy s and Daddy s hearts will always ache, we love you more than anything. We didn t get to keep you for long but we are happy we had the chance to meet you, look after you and call you our son. Fly high angel.
Sergeant Mark Crozier, of the West Midlands Police serious collision investigation unit, said: We ve all been left numb by the sad death of Ciaran. He was just two weeks old and his life has been tragically taken away. To see the loss of someone so young is difficult for us as officers, but we know the pain is greater for Ciaran s family.
Big-hearted veterinary nurse Clodagh Fox admits that shedding tears is all part of her work looking after sick or injured animals.
Nothing pleases her more than to see a poorly creature back on its feet after treatment or surgery at the UCD Veterinary Hospital in Dublin.
But she also has to face sights that would test the resolve of the toughest frontline animal worker.
Now the public will be able to see close up the work of the specialist animal centre in a new Virgin Media TV series, Animal Emergency, which began on Sunday night.
The UCD Veterinary Hospital, which looks after 6,000 animal patients a year, offers specialist services that are not easily available to most vets.
Stephen Donnelly also said that Ireland has one of the lowest rates of Covid-19 in Europe.
It comes as the health service in Ireland plans to ramp up its vaccine programme following months of setbacks and missed targets.
Despite plans to administer one million doses of Covid-19 vaccines throughout April, the Government revised down its target to around 860,000 vaccines.
One in six adults in Ireland has now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine. The no of people w/Covid in ICUs has fallen by about 75% since peak in late January. We ve one of the lowest rates of Covid-19 in Europe now. We re making huge progress. Stephen Donnelly (@DonnellyStephen) April 6, 2021