Mr. Weinstein, 74, first went on trial in the case in 2020 and was convicted of rape, but the verdict was overturned. In a second trial last year, the jury deadlocked on the rape count. The judge overseeing the case, Justice Curtis Farber of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, ordered a mistrial.<\/p>\n
The third trial is expected to last through the beginning of May.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Candace White, an assistant district attorney, told the jury that the incident was part of a larger pattern between the Ms. Mann and Mr. Weinstein. Ms. Mann had a tumultuous upbringing, one that included emotional and physical abuse, Ms. White said. Mr. Weinstein used those vulnerabilities to manipulate her into walking a \u201ctightrope\u201d in a relationship that spanned years, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case will come down to power, to control and to manipulation,\u201d Ms. White said.<\/p>\n
For this trial, Mr. Weinstein has hired a new team of lawyers: Jacob Kaplan, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos. Their firm has defended other high-profile people, including Sean Combs, the fallen hip-hop mogul.<\/p>\n
In his opening statements on Tuesday, Mr. Kaplan did not dispute the prosecution\u2019s account of some parts of his client\u2019s relationship with Ms. Mann. Mr. Kaplan said that over four years, the two had fallen into a \u201cmutually beneficial\u201d arrangement, much of it detailed in emails, which Mr. Kaplan characterized as evidence of a \u201csupportive and consensual relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHarvey was the opportunity she had always been looking for,\u201d Mr. Kaplan said of Ms. Mann.<\/p>\n
But Mr. Kaplan said Mr. Weinstein did not rape Ms. Mann in the Manhattan hotel. Instead, he said, when sexual misconduct accusations against the producer surfaced in 2017, Ms. Mann \u201chad to choose: either be with him or against him.\u201d Worried about how her relationship with Mr. Weinstein would be perceived, Ms. Mann \u2014 who was already struggling with her mental health \u2014 lied about the encounter, Mr. Kaplan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr. Weinstein, 74, first went on trial in the case in 2020 and was convicted of rape, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17075,29870,81426,28924,78302,9,56,63,65,64,81425],"class_list":{"0":"post-205418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-decisions-and-verdicts","9":"tag-harvey","10":"tag-jessica-actor","11":"tag-manhattan-nyc","12":"tag-mann","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-weinstein"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205418","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=205418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}