Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star and activist Mariska

Hargitay released a statement on Harvey Weinstein’s

recently-overturned rape conviction, calling the decision “infuriating.”

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NBC News reports that on Thursday, April 25, the New York state Court of Appeals voted to overturn Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction in a 4-3 decision, ruling that the judge in the case had “erroneously” allowed victims of Weinstein to testify whose assaults were not part of the case being tried. Per NBC News, New York Judge Madeline Singas expressed in a dissenting opinion that the majority were “failing to recognize that the jury was allowed to consider Weinstein’s past assaults.”

This opens the way for a new trial against the disgraced mogul, which the Manhattan’s DA office has indicated that it will pursue and “will do everything in our power to retry this case and remain steadfast in our commitment to survivors of sexual assault,” NBC News reports.

Weinstein had been serving a 23-year sentence for his New York conviction; however, he will remain imprisoned to complete his 16-year sentence following his 2022 rape conviction in California.

In a statement, accuser Dawn Dunning said of the decision, “While I’m stunned that the court threw out Weinstein’s conviction on legal technicalities, I am still proud that I testified and confronted that convicted rapist.”

An attorney for another accuser, Alexandra Canosa, said, “Today’s decision by the New York State Court of Appeals is very disappointing. Weinstein is a serial sexual predator and has been found guilty of being one by juries in two separate states.”