Disgraced Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is currently imprisoned at Rikers Island in New York City but aims to hasten the possibility of his release with an impending retrial on sexual assault and rape charges after his initial felony conviction was tossed out by an appellate court.

During a court hearing on Wednesday, Weinstein pleaded with the presiding judge to move up the scheduled April start date of his retrial because of his declining health, the Associated Press reported.

Weinstein, who was convicted in 2020 of sexually assaulting and raping two women, was sentenced to serve 23 years in prison but that conviction was overturned last year because prosecutors and the initial trial judge had included testimony against Weinstein from other alleged victims who were uninvolved in the case.

Weinstein wants his retrial date moved up

"Every day I’m at Rikers Island, it’s a mystery to me how I’m still walking," Weinstein told Manhattan Judge Curtis Farber of his diminishing health during Wednesday's hearing, per the AP. "I’m holding on because I want justice for myself and I want this to be over with."

Those remarks came in relation to his insistent request that the judge move up the scheduled April 15 start of his impending retrial to some unspecified date in March, if not earlier.

"I’m asking and begging you, your honor, to move your trial," he said, as he doesn't know "how much longer I can hold on" in the notorious detention center in NYC.

"I’m in a serious emergency situation. I am begging the court to move your date," Weinstein continued so that he could "get out of this hellhole as quickly as possible."

Weinstein's worsening health issues

Harvey Weinstein's health, which was likely not particularly good in the first place when he was initially convicted and sentenced to serve decades behind bars, has declined substantially over the past few years and resulted in him being hospitalized or confined to a wheelchair at times, according to USA Today.

Weinstein was diagnosed last year with chronic myeloid leukemia, a form of bone marrow cancer, on top of other health issues like "diabetes, coronary artery disease, obstructive sleep apnea, thyroid issues, obesity, high blood pressure, and chronic back pain."

He was reportedly hospitalized last year at least three times, including for COVID-19 and double pneumonia in July as well as emergency heart surgery in September.

Weinstein was also briefly hospitalized in November over concerns about an "alarming blood test," according to CBS News, which ironically occurred around a week after he filed a lawsuit against the Rikers Island jail and New York's Bellvue Hospital that alleged mistreatment and substandard care.

To be sure, he is far from alone in leveling accusatory complaints against the detention center that is reportedly on the verge of potentially being taken over by the federal government over longstanding allegations of mistreatment of detainees and exceptionally poor and "dangerous" conditions inside the facility.

Why is Weinstein still in jail?

As noted, Weinstein's 2020 conviction and 23-year sentence in New York were tossed out by an appeals court panel last year after he convinced the judges that "irrelevant" evidence and testimony put forward by zealous prosecutors had erroneously been allowed by the trial judge.

However, he remains in state custody in part because of the apparent threat he poses to women as well as his 2022 rape conviction in California -- which still stands but has been appealed -- that resulted in a 16-year sentence he was ordered to serve concurrently with his now-vacated sentence in New York.