NEW YORK — A wheelchair-bound Harvey Weinstein begged a New York judge on Wednesday to put him on trial earlier than planned because he isn’t sure he will live until the spring while incarcerated in the “hell hole” that he said is the New York City jail complex.
“Every day I’m at Rikers Island it’s a mystery to me how I’m still walking,” Weinstein told the court while seated in a wheelchair. “I’m asking and begging you your honor. I can’t hold on anymore. I’m holding on because I want justice for myself and I want this to be over with.”
Weinstein is scheduled to stand trial April 15. Judge Curtis Farber said he could not make it earlier because he is scheduled to preside over a murder trial that is “set in stone.” Weinstein persisted.
“I beg you to switch your case and do so out of clemency,” Weinstein said. “I don’t …