Harvey Weinstein has been convicted on one depend of committing a legal sexual act within the retrial of his 2020 rape conviction in New York.
The disgraced Hollywood producer was discovered responsible of sexually assaulting Miriam Haley, however he was acquitted of a second legal intercourse act cost for the alleged assault of Kaja Sokola.
The jury is presently deadlocked on a rape cost involving Jessica Mann and was ordered to renew deliberations on Thursday, June twelfth.
The partial verdict was delivered at present, June eleventh, after Weinstein known as for a mistrial amid tensions inside the jury. “That is my life that’s on the road,” he mentioned. “I’m not getting a good trial.”
This got here after the jury’s foreperson requested to talk with Decide Curtis Farber about tensions inside the deliberations.
“He mentioned phrases to the impact of ‘I can’t return in there with the opposite jurors,’” Farber defined. The choose added that there was preventing inside the jury, however the foreperson is “not going to alter his place — no matter that place is.”
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There have been greater than 5 weeks of testimony within the retrial, which included in depth questioning of his three accusers within the case.
Weinstein was being retried on two costs from his authentic 2020 trial and confronted one new cost. He was retried on one depend of first-degree legal sexual act for forcibly performing oral intercourse on former manufacturing assistant Miriam Haley in 2006, and one depend of third-degree rape for the alleged sexual assault of aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013.
As well as, Weinstein confronted a brand new legal intercourse act cost for allegedly forcing oral intercourse on a 3rd lady, Kaja Sokola, in 2006.
“All of them had desires of pursuing careers within the defendant’s world, the leisure trade,” prosecutor Nicole Blumberg instructed jurors in her closing argument. She alleged Weinstein feigned curiosity in advancing the ladies’s careers when he actually meant to “have their our bodies and contact their our bodies whether or not they wished him to or not.”
Conversely, Weinstein’s attorneys argued that the accusers consented to his advances and described their interactions as “transactional.” In his closing argument, protection lawyer Arthur Aidala acknowledged, “Sure, he desires to idiot round with them, and sure, they need one thing from him.”
This retrial was necessitated by the New York Court docket of Appeals overturning Weinstein’s conviction in April 2024, discovering that the unique trial choose made quite a few improper rulings that prejudiced the jury. In doing so, it threw out a 23-year jail sentence.
Weinstein stays convicted of a unique rape in Los Angeles from a separate 2022 trial. He’s presently serving a 16-year sentence for that case.