This week, the Los Angeles Country district attorney’s office announced that they would not be pursuing criminal charges against filmmaker James Toback. The LAPD had been investigating five sexual misconduct cases involving The Pick-up Artist director that allegedly occurred between 1978 and 2008, but determined that they fell beyond the statute of limitations. Over three hundred women—including the actresses Rachel McAdams and Selma Blair—have accused Toback of varying degrees of criminality, ranging from violent threats to sexual assault, yet the news means that there are now no outstanding cases against the filmmaker in L.A.

It’s a chilling precedent—especially when you consider that the L.A. County DA is still mulling whether to bring charges against Weinstein after an Italian actress alleged that the disgraced movie mogul raped her in a Beverly Hills hotel room five years ago. Authorities have been examining the evidence against Weinstein for two months now, and according to the Los Angeles Times, “the case is far from overwhelming—the sources said detectives have found little physical evidence of an attack and have been unable to secure proof that Weinstein was at the hotel when the woman says the rape occurred.” Prosecutors would be able to present the stories of other alleged Weinstein victims if the case should go to trial, owing to California state law, though it’s unclear whether or not this would bolster the specific case against him.