Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has appealed that 2022 conviction in a Los Angeles appeals court.

Attorneys filed the appeal on Friday after a series of extensions to give them more time to file the documents, KCBS reported.

The disgraced movie mogul was convicted in December 2022 of sexually assaulting an actress in a Los Angeles hotel room in in February 2013 and sentenced to 16 years in prison.

The appeal, filed Friday, follows a similar appeal that ended in his 2020 rape convictions in New York overturned in April, as CrimeOnline reported. Prosecutors there said last month they were evaluating several new complaints against the 72-year-old as they bring the case back for a retrial.

Weinstein was serving 23 years in prison for the New York convictions. While those were overturned, he remains in jail because of  the California conviction.

The California jury deadlocked on three other charges and acquitted Weinstein of a sexual battery charge.

According to The Associated Press, the appeal argues that Weinstein did not receive a fair trial because the judge wrongly excluded evidence that the model he was accused of raping had a sexual realtionship with the director of a film festival in Los Angeles and that the judge should not have let jurors hear about the New York conviction.

The judge deprived Weinstein of “his constitutional rights to present a defense and led to a miscarriage of justice,” the appeal says.

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[Featured image: FILE – Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Criminal Court, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool, File)]