Harvey Weinstein gets mistrial for rape charge in N.Y. retrial

The judge of the Criminal Tribunal supervising the new Harvey Weinstein sexual assault trial in New York said the film’s film’s charge of the film after the jury’s counterpont expressed his concerns about the current deliberations on Thursday.

The deliberations ended on Thursday – in an anti -limatic conclusion of the new trial of several weeks – one day after a mainly female jury recognized Weinstein of a sexual assault of 2006 but acquitted it on another of the same year. Wednesday, the Oscar -winning producer “Shakespeare in Love”, 73, was found guilty of forcing oral sex on the former production assistant of Weinstein Co. Mimi Haley and acquitted the same thing concerning the old model Kaja Sokola. At the time, the jury was hung on a third accusation of Weinstein violating the actor formerly aspiring Jessica Mann in 2013.

Weinstein was resumed five years after being sentenced in February 2020 for rape and a criminal sex crime linked to the individual allegations of the accusers Mann and Haley, respectively. He was acquitted at the time for two accusations of predatory sexual assault. A month later, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

After returning the partial verdict on Wednesday, the mainly female jury was to continue the deliberations Thursday on the accusation of rape. Judge Curtis Farber informed the pre-after the jury on Wednesday, who complained earlier this week that he felt a victim of intimidation, that he will not have to enter the jury room if he did not want it. The counterpartness told the prosecutors, defense lawyers and farber in a discussion in camera on Wednesday that another juror had shouted for him to stand by his opinion and at one point, “you will see me outside.”

The counterpartly told the judge and the lawyers: “I’m afraid inside”, according to a transcription.

He added Thursday that he would not return to the jury room. “No, I’m sorry,” he replied when asked.

Farber said weeks of trial after rejecting the request of a Weinstein lawyer for a trial arising from the hearing hall tensions with Mann. The hairdresser, who testified that she had met Weinstein in the 2010s after moving to Los Angeles, is ready to be tried a third time, the Manhattan prosecutor Nicole Blumberg said on Thursday.

A new trial date has not yet been revealed.

Weinstein’s new trial began on April 23 and presented emotional testimonies from Haley and Mann, who returned to the stand, as well as Sokola, who did not testify to the magnate during the 2020 trial. The Hollywood boss in disgrace was judged on the allegations that led to his original condemnation on rape and sexual crime, as well as a new accusation of sexual assault Sokola’s allegation that he had forced oral sex in 2006 when she was 19 years old. Weinstein pleaded not guilty and that his defense maintained the alleged that sexual testimonies were consensual.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.