Harvey Weinstein has been convicted on one rely of participating in prison intercourse however acquitted on a second rely in his sex crimes retrial in New York.
The Manhattan jury was unable to succeed in a verdict on the third rely of rape. The choose dismissed the jurors for the day however instructed them to maintain deliberating on that rely Thursday.
The break up verdict comes after some obvious discord within the jury room throughout deliberations.
Harvey Weinstein seems in state courtroom in Manhattan for his retrial, June 11, 2025, in New York.
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Earlier Wednesday, the jury foreperson despatched a observe telling Decide Curtis Farber he “can’t return inside with these folks.” That adopted a closed-door dialog throughout which the foreperson complained to the choose that the jurors have been “attacking” each other — including, “I do not prefer it” — in response to a transcript.
With out the jury current, Weinstein addressed the choose on Wednesday and complained that the jury habits is depriving him of a good trial.
“We’ve heard threats, we’ve hear fights, we’ve heard intimidation,” Weinstein mentioned. “This isn’t proper for me, the individual on trial right here.”
Farber had proposed a cooling-off interval, then the jury got here again in saying they’d a verdict on the 2 counts.
In dismissing the jury on Wednesday, Farber reminded jurors to be respectful to 1 one other.
Weinstein was being retried for sexually assaulting two girls, Mimi Haley and Jessica Mann, after an earlier conviction was overturned on appeal. He’s additionally charged with sexually assaulting a 3rd girl, Kaja Sokola, who was not a part of the primary trial.
The jury convicted Weinstein of participating in a prison intercourse act with Haley however acquitted him of participating in a prison intercourse act with Sokola.
The jurors will resume deliberations on the rape rely involving Mann on Thursday.
All three girls have publicly come ahead and testified through the trial.
Weinstein, 73, pleaded not responsible and has mentioned his sexual encounters have been consensual. He didn’t testify through the trial.
Harvey Weinstein seems in state courtroom in Manhattan for his retrial, June 11, 2025, in New York.
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Prosecutors mentioned Weinstein “preyed on three girls” as “he held unfettered energy for over 30 years” in Hollywood, whereas the protection countered the producer didn’t coerce the ladies and claimed they have been utilizing him for his connections.
“Harvey Weinstein had monumental management over these working in tv and movie. He determined who was in and who was out,” the prosecutor, Shannon Lucey, informed the jury of seven girls and 5 males firstly of the trial. “He held the golden ticket. The prospect to make it or not.”
Lucey claimed that “no” was “not a phrase the defendant was used to listening to.”
Weinstein’s protection lawyer, Arthur Aidala, agreed with prosecutors that Weinstein was a strong man within the tv and movie industries, however he informed the jury Weinstein didn’t coerce the ladies he is accused of assaulting. As a substitute, Aidala claimed Weinstein engaged in “mutually useful relationships” that the lawyer mentioned have been occurring in Hollywood for 100 years.
“They’re playing around with him consensually,” Aidala claimed. “The casting sofa was not against the law scene.”
In detailing the alleged sexual assaults, Lucey claimed that when Haley went to Weinstein’s Crosby Avenue house in July 2006 to debate a manufacturing position on “Mission Runway,” he allegedly “held her down” and subjected her to forcible sexual conduct.
Sokola was 16 when she first met Weinstein in 2002 at a restaurant within the West Village shortly after signing a modeling contract to come back to New York from Poland. A number of years later, in 2006, Weinstein forged Sokola as an additional in “The Nanny Diaries.” After a lunch at a Manhattan resort that yr, Weinstein allegedly “pressed on her shoulders with sufficient drive to get her down on the mattress” and compelled oral intercourse on the 19-year-old as she mentioned, “Please don’t do that,” Lucey claimed.
Lucey additionally claimed Weinstein allegedly compelled Sokola to the touch his genitals in a Manhattan house when she was 16. Weinstein will not be charged in that alleged 2002 incident within the indictment, as it’s outdoors the statute of limitations. However the choose has allowed Sokola to testify about it through the trial, together with a second alleged incident involving Weinstein she says occurred in 2004. Sokola beforehand filed a lawsuit in New York beneath the Youngster Victims Act over the alleged 2002 incident, which prosecutors mentioned has since been settled.
In 2013, Weinstein allegedly subjected Mann to intercourse with out her consent at a resort, in response to Lucey. Mann testified that Weinstein raped her after discovering out she had a severe boyfriend who was an actor. Lucey claimed Mann had additionally engaged in sexual encounters with Weinstein that weren’t coerced out of concern of his energy within the trade.
The brand new trial comes after the New York Courtroom of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s preliminary 2020 conviction final yr, discovering the trial choose “erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts in opposition to individuals apart from the complainants of the underlying crimes.”
Weinstein has additionally appealed his conviction in December 2022 on sex offenses in Los Angeles. He was sentenced to 16 years in jail there.
