Judge declares mistrial in Harvey Weinsteins rape retrial after jury deadlocked
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Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial ended in a mistrial Friday after the jury deadlocked.This is the third trial for the New York rape case.Weinstein, whose decades-long history of alleged sexual assault upended the entertainment industry and inspired the #MeToo movement, has been convicted of other sex crimes in New York and Los Angeles and is incarcerated in a Rikers Island facility in Queens.
According to the Associated Press, Weinstein appeared expressionless after the mistrial was announced and court officers escorted him out in his wheelchair.A majority-male jury spent three days deliberating the rape charge against Weinstein.Jessica Mann, a hairstylist and aspiring actor, said the rape happened at a Manhattan DoubleTree hotel in 2013.
Weinstein’s defense argued that the sexual encounter between Mann and the then-married Weinstein was consensual.Weinstein was initially convicted of assaulting Mann in 2020, but that verdict, along with another charge, was overturned in April 2024.
In a second New York trial last summer, Weinstein was convicted of forcing oral sex on Miriam Haley and acquitted of the same regarding former model Kaja Sokola.The jury was hung on a third charge of raping Mann.
Entertainment & Arts Harvey Weinstein is found guilty of rape in his New York sex crimes retrial.He is acquitted on another charge while the jury was hung on a third.On Friday, a few hours into the third day of deliberations, jurors sent Judge Curtis Farber a note saying they “have concluded that they cannot reach” a unanimous verdict.
Judge Farber instructed the group to continue deliberating.Jurors returned to their closed-door discussions and emerged more than an hour later with another note, reading, “We feel that no one is going to change where they stand.” A hearing was set for June 24 to learn whether prosecutors will go to a fourth trial f...