Judge declares mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial after jury deadlock - BERITAJA

Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial ended successful a mistrial Friday aft the assemblage deadlocked successful the intimately watched #MeToo-era lawsuit that different jury failed to determine past year.

While the erstwhile Hollywood mogul has been convicted of different activity crimes connected 2 U.S. coasts and remains down bars, the mistrial leaves the New York rape complaint successful limbo aft 3 trials.

A majority-male Manhattan assemblage had been weighing whether Weinstein raped Jessica Mann, a hairstylist and actor. Weinstein’s lawyers based on that the brushwood was consensual. It happened successful 2013 during a fraught relationship between the then-married Weinstein and the decades-younger Mann.

The signs of stalemate emerged connected Friday, a fewer hours into the 3rd time of deliberations. Jurors sent a statement saying they “have concluded that they cannot reach” a unanimous verdict. Judge Curtis Farber instructed the group to proceed deliberating. That’s mostly what New York judges do astatine slightest the first clip a assemblage says it’s stuck.

An appeals court overturned his 2020 New York conviction on charges that progressive Mann and different accuser. At a retrial past year, assemblage deliberations collapsed down amid infighting connected Mann’s information of the case, starring to this existent retrial. Weinstein is charged pinch 1 count of rape successful the 3rd degree.

Mann, 40, has testified that she willingly had immoderate intersexual interludes pinch the then-married producer, but that he subjected her to unwanted activity that time aft she many times said no.

Weinstein’s lawyers person emphasized that Mann subsequently continued seeing Weinstein aft the encounter and expressed warmth toward him. Mann has said she was mired successful analyzable feelings about him, herself and what had happened.

Her viewpoint changed successful 2017, erstwhile a series of allegations against the Oscar-winning Weinstein propelled #MeToo. Some of those accusations generated criminal convictions against Weinstein successful New York and California.

Weinstein, 74, has said he “acted wrongly” but ne'er assaulted anyone.

The existent assemblage heard about 3 weeks of testimony, five days of it from Mann. Weinstein did not testify.

The Associated Press mostly does not place group who opportunity they person been sexually assaulted. Mann, however, has agreed to beryllium named.