NEW YORK (AP) — The jury in Harvey Weinstein ’s New York intercourse crimes retrial resumed deliberations Monday after failing to achieve a verdict final week.
Jurors are of their third day of weighing costs towards the previous film mogul. The panel of seven ladies and 5 males started deliberating Thursday.
Weinstein, 73, has pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of committing a prison intercourse act and one rely of rape.
The trial choose, Curtis Farber, is listening to different circumstances whereas awaiting a verdict.
On Friday, a Weinstein juror requested to be faraway from the case, saying he felt different jurors have been treating one member of the panel in an “unfair and unjust” method.
The choose advised him he needed to maintain deliberating and in addition denied a protection request for a mistrial over the problem.
Weinstein was initially convicted in New York in 2020 of rape and sexual assault towards two ladies in a verdict thought of a landmark within the #MeToo motion.
However the conviction was subsequently overturned, resulting in his retrial — with an extra accuser added final yr — earlier than a brand new jury and a distinct choose.
Weinstein was additionally convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 of one other rape.
