Harvey Weinstein is expected to appear before a judge Wednesday afternoon in the same New York City courthouse where .

Weinstein is awaiting a retrial on rape charges after his was tossed out. Wednesday鈥檚 court hearing will address various legal issues related to the upcoming trial, which is tentatively scheduled for some time after Labor Day.

Weinstein鈥檚 original trial was held in the same courtroom where Trump is on trial now, but the two men are unlikely to bump into each other. Weinstein is in custody and will be brought to and from the courtroom under guard. He will be appearing in a courtroom on a different floor than where Trump is currently on trial.

Weinstein was convicted of rape in the third degree for an attack on Jessica Mann, an aspiring actor, and of sexually assaulting Miriam Haley, a former TV and film production assistant.

But last month those convictions after determining that the trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations from other women that weren鈥檛 part of the case. Weinstein, 72, has maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.

The reopened a painful chapter in America鈥檚 reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures. The began in 2017 with a flood of allegations against Weinstein.

, prosecutors asked Judge Curtis Farber to remind Weinstein鈥檚 lawyers not to discuss or disparage potential witnesses in public ahead of the retrial.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg鈥檚 office argued that Weinstein鈥檚 lead attorney, Arthur Aidala, made statements meant to intimidate Haley earlier this month.

Speaking on May 1, Aidala said Haley lied to the jury about her motive in coming forward and that his team planned an aggressive cross-examination on the issue 鈥渋f she dares to come and show her face here.鈥�

Aidala didn鈥檛 respond to an email seeking comment Tuesday about Bragg鈥檚 request.

Haley has said she does not want to go through the trauma of testifying again, 鈥渂ut for the sake of keeping going and doing the right thing and because it is what happened, I would consider it.鈥�

Her attorney, Gloria Allred, declined to comment until after she attends Wednesday鈥檚 proceedings.

The Associated Press does not generally identify people alleging sexual assault unless they consent to be named, as both Haley and Mann have.

Weinstein, who had been serving a 23-year sentence in New York, was also in 2022 of another rape and is still sentenced to 16 years in prison in California.

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Philip Marcelo, The Associated Press