NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jurors said they were at loggerheads Friday in Harvey Weinstein ‘s rape retrial, but a judge told the panel to keep trying for a verdict in the closely watched #MeToo-era case that another jury failed to decide last year.<\/p>\n
The signs of stalemate emerged a few hours into the third day of deliberations. Jurors sent a note saying they \u201chave concluded that they cannot reach\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
Jurors then returned to their closed-door discussions. They’re tasked with deciding whether Weinstein \u2014 the former movie mogul who became a symbol of the #MeToo movement’s campaign against sexual misconduct \u2014 raped hairstylist and actor Jessica Mann in a Manhattan hotel room in March 2013.<\/p>\n
An 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\u2019s portion of the case, leading to this current retrial. Weinstein is charged with one count of rape in the third degree.<\/p>\n
Mann, 40, has testified that she willingly had some sexual interludes with the then-married producer, but that he subjected her to unwanted sex that day after she repeatedly said no.<\/p>\n
Weinstein’s lawyers maintain that the encounter was consensual. They have emphasized that Mann subsequently continued seeing Weinstein and expressing warmth toward him. Mann has said she was mired in complicated feelings about him, herself and what had happened.<\/p>\n
Her viewpoint changed in 2017, when a series of allegations against the Oscar-winning Weinstein propelled #MeToo. Some of those accusations generated criminal convictions against Weinstein in New York and California.<\/p>\n
Weinstein, 74, has said he \u201cacted wrongly\u201d but never assaulted anyone.<\/p>\n
The current jury heard nearly three weeks of testimony, five days of it from Mann. Weinstein did not testify.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press generally does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted. Mann, however, has agreed to be named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jurors said they were at loggerheads Friday in Harvey Weinstein ‘s rape retrial, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[78292,6431,90330,78293,75,84,83,9,24,63,833,834,2376,3065,2336,829,2337,831,2338],"class_list":["post-232856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-curtis-farber","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-harvey-weinstein-rape-retrial-jury-deliberations-metoo","tag-jessica-mann","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30031-ap-california-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30083-ap-new-york-city-news-no-weather","tag-product-30085-ap-new-york-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31388-premium-entertainment","tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","tag-product-33328-ap-premium-entertainment-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232856","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=232856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}