A judge in Manhattan declared a mistrial on Friday after the jury in Harvey Weinstein\u2019s rape trial was unable to reach a verdict on the charge that the disgraced Hollywood producer raped an aspiring actress in a hotel room in 2013. It\u2019s the second time a jury has not been able to reach a verdict on this charge.<\/p>\n
The jury had deliberated for more than two days.<\/p>\n
In 2020, Mr. Weinstein first went on trial and was convicted of raping the aspiring actress, Jessica Mann. But the verdict was overturned, and in a second trial last year, the jury deadlocked on the rape count. The judge overseeing the case, Justice Curtis Farber of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, ordered a new trial.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Justice Farber said it was \u201cquite clear\u201d that the jurors were \u201chopelessly deadlocked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Around 1:15 p.m., he told the jurors that he didn\u2019t \u201csee any reason to go further in deliberations. It\u2019s not meant to be a coercive process.\u201d<\/p>\n
He dismissed the jury.<\/p>\n
The accusations against Mr. Weinstein nearly a decade ago had catalyzed activism across the globe. Once an influential Hollywood producer, he was seen as emblematic of the scores of powerful men<\/a> who lost their jobs after public allegations of misconduct.<\/p>\n Mr. Weinstein\u2019s first New York conviction in 2020, which resulted in a 23-year prison sentence, was seen as a watershed moment in the #MeToo movement. He was later convicted of sexual assault in a separate Los Angeles case<\/a> and sentenced to 16 years in prison there. He is appealing that case.<\/p>\n But since those trials, public attention and interest in the #MeToo movement has seemed to wane. This trial was the first time prosecutors had presented the story of only one accuser and asked the jury, in a case with no physical evidence, to believe the testimony of Ms. Mann over Mr. Weinstein\u2019s denials.<\/p>\n In 2013, Ms. Mann said, she was visiting New York<\/a> and had planned a morning meal with friends and Mr. Weinstein, but he had arrived early and got a hotel room over her objections. After she accompanied him to the room, she testified, he injected his penis with medication that produced an erection and then raped her<\/a>.<\/p>\n Over five days of testimony this year, Ms. Mann told her account for the third time.<\/p>\n The hung jury on Friday means that Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, will now have to decide whether his office will try Mr. Weinstein for a fourth time. The case was first tried under his predecessor.<\/p>\n This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge in Manhattan declared a mistrial on Friday after the jury in Harvey Weinstein\u2019s rape trial was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17757,17756,14214,12992,17751,17755,8,17753,17752,2097,9,7,17754,14399],"class_list":{"0":"post-29138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-alvin","9":"tag-bragg","10":"tag-curtis","11":"tag-decisions-and-verdicts","12":"tag-farber","13":"tag-harvey","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-jessica-actor","16":"tag-mann","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-weinstein","21":"tag-workplace-hazards-and-violations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116579940774900538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}