A prosector is looking for Harvey Weinstein's bail to be raised after he allegedly mishandled his ankle monitor.
Prosecutor Joan Illuzzi at a pretrial hearing Friday said Weinstein, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and sexual assault and will go on trial in January, violated his bail conditions "repeatedly" by leaving a piece of his monitoring technology at home, The Associated Press reports. This, AP writes, "left his whereabouts unrecorded for hours at a time." Illuzzi is asking for Weinstein's bail to be raised from $1 million to $5 million.
Illuzzi also argued Friday that it would not be "unreasonable" to remand Weinstein to jail until the trial, USA Today reports.
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Weinstein's defense attorney, Donna Rotunno, is denying that he intentionally misused his ankle monitor, saying "technical glitches," including dead batteries, are to blame. She did say that Weinstein once forgot a part of the device at home but that "the minute he realized he forgot it, he made a phone call." Weinstein's trial is set to begin on Jan. 6.
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