New York Judge Declares Mistrial in Harvey Weinstein Rape Retrial After Jury Deadlock
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A New York judge declared a mistrial Friday in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial after jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict, leaving the high-profile #MeToo-era charge unresolved. The Manhattan jury had been weighing allegations that Weinstein raped Jessica Mann in 2013, an encounter his attorneys argued was consensual.
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Fox News EntertainmentThe judge in Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial declared a mistrial on Friday. While the former Hollywood mogul has been convicted of other sex crimes on two U.S. coasts and remains behind bars, the mistrial leaves the New York rape charge in limbo after three trials.
Washington Times CultureAn appeals court overturned his 2020 New York conviction on charges that involved Mann and another accuser. At a retrial last year, jury deliberations broke down amid infighting on Mann’s portion of the case, leading to this current retrial. Weinstein is charged with one count of rape in the third degree.
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Some of those accusations later generated criminal convictions against Weinstein in New York and California.
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The current jury heard nearly three weeks of testimony, five days of it from Mann. Weinstein did not testify.
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01 Washington Times Culture The signs of stalemate emerged Friday a few hours into the third day of deliberations. Jurors sent a note saying they “have concluded that they cannot reach” a unanimous verdict. Judge Curtis Farber instructed the group to continue deliberating. That’s generally what New York judges do at least the first time a jury says it’s stuck.
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02 Breitbart Entertainment Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has requested a Los Angeles judge to set aside the jury verdict that found the company liable for causing a young woman’s mental health problems, in what represents a pivotal case examining whether social media companies deliberately designed addictive platforms that harm young Americans.
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