Harvey Weinstein’s recent filing of an appeal of his 2020 rape and sexual assault conviction to New York’s highest court has the potential to set new rules for sexual violence cases, attorney Tim Hoover of Hoover & Durland told the Albany County Bar Association’s continuing legal education program on Monday.

A founding partner in Hoover & Durland in Buffalo, and a past president of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Hoover made the remarks as part of a presentation on a number of New York Court of Appeals cases of interest to business, commercial and white-collar practitioners.