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(NEW YORK) — Harvey Weinstein begged a Manhattan judge on Wednesday\u00a0to put him on trial<\/a>\u00a0earlier than planned, saying he isn’t sure he will live until the spring while incarcerated in the “hell hole” that is the New York City jail complex.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Weinstein is scheduled to stand trial April 15. Judge Curtis Farber said he could not push it earlier because he is scheduled to preside over a murder trial that is “set in stone.”<\/p>\n

Even so, Weinstein persisted.<\/p>\n

“I beg you to switch your case and do so out of clemency,” Weinstein said. “I don’t know how much longer I can hold on.”<\/p>\n

He complained that the conditions he faces in jail are complicating his medical issues, calling Rikers Island “a medieval situation.”<\/p>\n

Weinstein — who\u00a0has cancer<\/a>\u00a0and underwent\u00a0emergency heart surgery<\/a>\u00a0in September — is suing New York City and its Department of Correction, alleging “medical negligence.”<\/p>\n

“I’m begging the court to move your date so we can have that date instead and proceed with this trial as quickly as we can and get out of this hell hole,” Weinstein said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The disgraced film producer asked to start the trial even a bit earlier, April 7, because, he said, “every week counts.”<\/p>\n

Farber said he would consider the request.<\/p>\n

“If the lawyers report to me they can do it sooner then I’ll make myself available,” Farber said.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Farber denied Weinstein’s bid to dismiss a\u00a0new sexual assault charge<\/a>\u00a0from a woman who alleged Weinstein forced oral sex on her in a Manhattan hotel in 2006. Weinstein argued that prosecutors unduly delayed charging him.<\/p>\n

“The application to dismiss denied,” Farber said. “The court has inspected the grand jury minutes and found them to be sufficient.”<\/p>\n

Weinstein will stand trial on the new sexual assault charge at the same time he is retried on two other sexual assault charges after an earlier conviction\u00a0was overturned on appeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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