Judge Declares Mistrial in Weinstein Rape Trial

A decide in Manhattan declared a mistrial on Friday after the jury in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial was unable to succeed in a verdict on the cost that the disgraced Hollywood producer raped an aspiring actress in a lodge room in 2013. It’s the second time a jury has not been in a position to attain a verdict on this cost.

The jury had deliberated for greater than two days.

In 2020, Mr. Weinstein first went on trial and was convicted of raping the aspiring actress, Jessica Mann. But the decision was overturned, and in a second trial final 12 months, the jury deadlocked on the rape depend. The decide overseeing the case, Justice Curtis Farber of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, ordered a brand new trial.

On Friday, Justice Farber mentioned it was “quite clear” that the jurors have been “hopelessly deadlocked.”

Around 1:15 pm, he informed the swearers that he did not “see any reason to go further in deliberations. It’s not meant to be a coercive process.”

I’ve dismissed the jury.

This 12 months’s trial was in some methods a take a look at of the endurance of the #MeToo motion, which demanded accountability for sexual harassment and assault in the office. The accusations in opposition to Mr. Weinstein had catalyzed activism throughout the globe, and Mr. Weinstein, as soon as an influential Hollywood producer, was seen as emblematic of the scores of powerful men who misplaced their jobs after public allegations of misconduct.

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