Judge declares a mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial after jury says it is deadlocked

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein ’s rape retrial ended successful a mistrial Friday aft the assemblage deadlocked successful the intimately watched #MeToo-era lawsuit that different assemblage failed to determine past year.

While the erstwhile Hollywood mogul has been convicted of different enactment crimes connected 2 U.S. coasts and remains down bars, the mistrial leaves the New York rape complaint successful limbo aft 3 trials.

A majority-male Manhattan assemblage had been weighing whether Weinstein raped Jessica Mann, a hairstylist and actor. Weinstein’s lawyers argued that the brushwood was consensual. It happened successful 2013 during a fraught narration betwixt the then-married Weinstein and the decades-younger Mann.

The signs of stalemate emerged Friday a fewer hours into the 3rd time of deliberations. Jurors sent a enactment saying they “have concluded that they cannot reach” a unanimous verdict. Judge Curtis Farber instructed the radical to proceed deliberating. That's mostly what New York judges bash astatine slightest the archetypal clip a assemblage says it's stuck.

An appeals tribunal overturned his 2020 New York condemnation connected charges that progressive Mann and different accuser. At a retrial past year, assemblage deliberations broke down amid infighting connected Mann’s information of the case, starring to this existent retrial. Weinstein is charged with 1 number of rape successful the 3rd degree.

Mann, 40, has testified that she willingly had immoderate intersexual interludes with the then-married producer, but that helium subjected her to unwanted enactment that time aft she repeatedly said no.

Weinstein's lawyers person emphasized that Mann subsequently continued seeing Weinstein aft the brushwood and expressing warmth toward him. Mann has said she was mired successful analyzable feelings astir him, herself and what had happened.

Her viewpoint changed successful 2017, erstwhile a bid of allegations against the Oscar-winning Weinstein propelled #MeToo. Some of those accusations generated transgression convictions against Weinstein successful New York and California.

Weinstein, 74, has said helium “acted wrongly” but ne'er assaulted anyone.

The existent assemblage heard astir 3 weeks of testimony, 5 days of it from Mann. Weinstein did not testify.

The Associated Press mostly does not place radical who accidental they person been sexually assaulted. Mann, however, has agreed to beryllium named.

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