{"id":197664,"date":"2026-04-15T03:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197664\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T03:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:21:25","slug":"jury-selection-starts-for-harvey-weinsteins-latest-retrial-in-a-new-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197664\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury selection starts for Harvey Weinstein’s latest retrial in a New Y…"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 After years of #MeToo infamy<\/a>, legal peril and prison, Harvey Weinstein<\/a> is again going on trial on a rape charge in New York City.<\/p>\n

Jury selection started Tuesday in the onetime movie mogul’s latest retrial, where jurors will weigh \u2014 for the third time \u2014 whether he raped hairstylist and Jessica Mann<\/a> in a Manhattan hotel in 2013. <\/p>\n

It’s a more streamlined proceeding than the array of allegations that were aired at Weinstein\u2019s previous trials in New York and Los Angeles. The Oscar-winning producer denies all the accusations and declared in court<\/a> this winter that he had \u201cacted wrongly, but I never assaulted anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, the retrial is expected to last up to six weeks. Questioned about the length of the proceeding and whether they could be fair and impartial about the much-publicized case, more than 80 people asked to be excused during initial screening Tuesday morning. The day ended with no jurors chosen. <\/p>\n

The process is scheduled to resume Wednesday with prospective jurors being questioned individually in private about their knowledge of the case and Weinstein. Wider-ranging questioning in court should follow eventually. <\/p>\n

A surprise move from prosecutors <\/p>\n

In a surprise move before jury selection began, prosecutors said they had a new piece of evidence \u2014 a remark that Weinstein allegedly made to a court officer six years ago.<\/p>\n

According to Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Candace White, the officer told prosecutors last week that he was present during Weinstein\u2019s February 2020 sexual assault conviction<\/a> \u2014 which was later overturned \u2014 and heard Weinstein say: \u201cIf you had seen these girls, you would have done the exact same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weinstein\u2019s lawyers urged Judge Curtis Farber to keep any mention of the supposed remark out of the upcoming retrial.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis sounds far-fetched,\u201d defense attorney Marc Agnifilo said, also arguing that it emerged too late. <\/p>\n

A subject that was explored in prior trials \u2014 a claims fund for women who said Weinstein sexually mistreated them \u2014 likely won’t come up again. The defense team doesn\u2019t intend to raise the subject, Farber said.<\/p>\n

A new defense team<\/p>\n

Agnifilo and his partners took on the case<\/a> in February, when longtime Weinstein lawyer Arthur Aidala stepped aside from the retrial to focus on the former studio boss\u2019 appeals and civil matters. Both Aidala and Agnifilo are well-known New York defense attorneys, but their litigation styles differ. Aidala is folksy, while Agnifilo is more buttoned-up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 After years of #MeToo infamy, legal peril and prison, Harvey Weinstein is again going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-197664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}