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Judge declares a mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial after jury says it is deadlocked
Judge Curtis Farber declared a mistrial after jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict in Harvey Weinstein’s third Manhattan sex crimes trial.
- On Friday, Harvey Weinstein's third Manhattan sex crimes trial ended in mistrial after jurors deadlocked on whether he raped Jessica Mann in 2013, with Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Curtis Farber declaring the mistrial at just after 1 p.m.
- Weinstein's path to this retrial began when an appeals court overturned his 2020 New York conviction and 23-year prison sentence, citing unfair trial procedures.
- Mann testified she willingly had some sexual contact with the then-married producer but was subjected to unwanted sex after repeatedly saying no, while Weinstein's lawyers argued the encounter was consensual.
- The mistrial leaves the New York rape charge in limbo after three trials, though Weinstein remains incarcerated for convictions in California and on other New York charges, facing up to 25 additional years for the Haley conviction.
- Weinstein, 74, is serving a 16-year California prison sentence from a 2022 rape conviction and remains a symbol of the #MeToo movement that emerged in 2017 and encouraged women to come forward with accounts of sexual abuse by powerful men.
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In 2020, film producer Harvey Weinstein was found guilty in court. The verdict was considered a milestone until it was surprisingly collected in 2024. In the third attempt of the trial, a jury is already divided.
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The prosecutor said he was "disappointed" with the declaration of a miscarriage of justice at a time when the victim has been "struggling to get justice" for almost a decade, as he said.
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