{"id":202251,"date":"2026-04-19T01:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202251\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T01:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:16:37","slug":"opening-statements-set-for-tuesday-in-harvey-weinsteins-rape-retrial-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202251\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening statements set for Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein\u2019s rape retrial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Opening statements are set for Tuesday in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/harvey-weinstein\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harvey Weinstein<\/a> \u2018s third trial on a New York rape charge.<\/p>\n<p>Four days of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/harvey-weinstein-rape-trial-metoo-4c1ab0f9aed5d563a1146c799dd0250d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jury selection<\/a> wrapped up Friday in the case against the former Hollywood powerbroker turned <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/diddy-metoo-implications-tarana-burke-e45f80962e1a1285394d448aa212601b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#MeToo pariah<\/a>. A jury of seven men and five women will be tasked with deciding whether he raped a woman in a Manhattan hotel in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein has pleaded not guilty. The trial is expected to take up to four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>At 73, the Oscar-winning former movie producer has spent much of the last decade fighting sexual assault cases in New York and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>He was convicted in both cities, but his initial <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-top-news-harvey-weinstein-sexual-assault-ca-state-wire-us-news-67057b46fcd3f1183cf6a699a399c886\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2020 New York conviction<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/weinstein-metoo-appeal-ed29faeec862abf0c071e8bd3574c4a3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">overturned<\/a>. Then jurors at a retrial last year <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/harvey-weinstein-sexual-assault-retrial-metoo-c45fa63cb6102766944dca9ee2f93878\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deadlocked on the rape charge<\/a>, while reaching <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/harvey-weinstein-sexual-assault-trial-31d7a64b75148d1e482f3c020ffea527\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a mixed verdict<\/a> on sexual assault charges pertaining to two other women.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein denies all the allegations and has appealed his various convictions. He has been behind bars for six years to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Opening statements are set for Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein \u2018s third trial on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6431,75,84,83,9,24,63,3018,79869],"class_list":{"0":"post-202251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-harvey-weinstein","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-manhattan-headlines","11":"tag-manhattan-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-rape","16":"tag-rape-retrial"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202251","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=202251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}