New York's highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction.

The Court of Appeals found the trial judge made serious legal errors that unfairly prejudiced the disgraced filmmaker.

Weinstein's successful appeal is a blow to the #MeToo movement against powerful men who prey on vulnerable women, undoing one of its historic breakthrough moments.

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