Split verdict reached in Harvey Weinstein sex crimes retrial

[ad_1] Harvey Weinstein has been convicted on one rely of partaking in legal intercourse however acquitted on a second rely in his intercourse crimes retrial in New York.

The Manhattan jury was unable to succeed in a verdict on the third rely of rape. The choose dismissed the jurors for the day however instructed them to maintain deliberating on that rely Thursday.

The break up verdict comes after some obvious discord within the jury room throughout deliberations.

Harvey Weinstein seems in state courtroom in Manhattan for his retrial, June 11, 2025, in New York.

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Earlier Wednesday, the jury foreperson despatched a word telling Choose Curtis Farber he "can't return inside with these individuals." That adopted a closed-door dialog throughout which the foreperson complained to the choose that the jurors had been "attacking" each other and preventing -- including, "I do not prefer it" -- in keeping with a transcript.

With out the jury current, Weinstein addressed the choose on Wednesday and complained that the jury habits is depriving him of a good trial.

“We’ve heard threats, we’ve heard fights, we’ve heard intimidation,” Weinstein mentioned. “This isn't proper for me, the individual on trial right here.”

Farber had proposed a cooling-off interval, then the jury got here again in saying they'd a verdict on the 2 counts.

In dismissing the jury on Wednesday, Farber reminded jurors to be respectful to 1 one other.

Weinstein was being retried for sexually assaulting two girls, Mimi Haley and Jessica Mann, after an earlier conviction was overturned on attraction. He's additionally charged with sexually assaulting a 3rd girl, Kaja Sokola, who was not a part of the primary trial.

The jury convicted Weinstein of partaking in a legal intercourse act with Haley however acquitted him of partaking in a legal intercourse act with Sokola.

The jurors will resume deliberations on the rape rely involving Mann on Thursday.

Weinstein, 73, pleaded not responsible and has mentioned his sexual encounters had been consensual. He didn't testify through the trial.

All three girls have publicly come ahead and testified through the trial.

Lawyer Gloria Allred and her shopper Miriam Haley stroll via Acquire Pond Park after a partial verdict in former movie producer Harvey Weinstein's trial, June 11, 2025, in New York.

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Following the break up verdict, Haley thanked the jurors, whom she mentioned "noticed via the nonsense and the antics" of the protection.

"Testifying within the face of fixed disruptions, sufferer shaming and deliberate makes an attempt to distort the reality was exhausting and at instances dehumanizing," she mentioned. "However as we speak's verdict offers me hope -- hope that there's new consciousness round sexual violence and that the parable of the proper sufferer is fading."

"I hope that this outcome empowers others to talk out and search justice," she added.

Lawyer Megan Goddard (L) and lawyer Lindsay Goldbrum (R) pay attention as their shopper Kaja Sokola (C) speaks after a partial verdict in former movie producer Harvey Weinstein trial at Manhattan Prison Courtroom, June 11, 2025, in New York.

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Sokola advised reporters she was proud of the decision and happy with the opposite girls who testified.

"It was an especially troublesome journey for all of us to relive our traumas and to undergo it in open courtroom," Sokola mentioned. "It is a large win for everybody. Harvey Weinstein might be in jail."

"For myself, it is closing of a chapter that brought on me numerous ache all through my life," she added.

Her lawyer, Lindsay Goldbrum, mentioned the decision "is a step in the direction of justice, even when it is not an entire one."

Sexual harassment and assault allegations in opposition to Weinstein revealed in 2017 galvanized the #MeToo motion. Following the decision, Haley's lawyer, Gloria Allred, advised reporters Wednesday, "For these of you within the press who've predicted that the #MeToo motion could be lifeless, that obituary was clearly untimely."

As jurors nonetheless weigh the rape rely, Mann mentioned in an announcement Wednesday that she "laid naked my trauma" and "stood up and advised the reality. Time and again."

"I might by no means lie about rape or use one thing so traumatic to harm somebody," she mentioned.

Harvey Weinstein seems in state courtroom in Manhattan for his retrial, June 11, 2025, in New York.

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Prosecutors mentioned Weinstein "preyed on three girls" as "he held unfettered energy for over 30 years" in Hollywood, whereas the protection countered the producer didn't coerce the ladies and claimed they had been utilizing him for his connections.

"Harvey Weinstein had monumental management over these working in tv and movie. He determined who was in and who was out," the prosecutor, Shannon Lucey, advised the jury of seven girls and 5 males initially of the trial. "He held the golden ticket. The possibility to make it or not."

Lucey claimed that "no" was "not a phrase the defendant was used to listening to."

Weinstein's protection lawyer, Arthur Aidala, agreed with prosecutors that Weinstein was a strong man within the tv and movie industries, however he advised the jury Weinstein didn't coerce the ladies he is accused of assaulting. As an alternative, Aidala claimed Weinstein engaged in "mutually useful relationships" that the lawyer mentioned have been occurring in Hollywood for 100 years.

"They're playing around with him consensually," Aidala claimed. "The casting sofa was not against the law scene."

In detailing the alleged sexual assaults, Lucey claimed that when Haley went to Weinstein's Crosby Avenue house in July 2006 to debate a manufacturing position on "Mission Runway," he "held her down" and subjected her to forcible sexual conduct.

Sokola was 16 when she first met Weinstein in 2002 at a restaurant within the West Village shortly after signing a modeling contract to come back to New York from Poland. A number of years later, in 2006, Weinstein solid Sokola as an additional in "The Nanny Diaries." After a lunch at a Manhattan resort that yr, Weinstein allegedly "pressed on her shoulders with sufficient power to get her down on the mattress" and compelled oral intercourse on the 19-year-old as she mentioned, "Please don't do that," Lucey claimed.

Lucey additionally claimed Weinstein allegedly pressured Sokola to the touch his genitals in a Manhattan house when she was 16. Weinstein is just not charged in that alleged 2002 incident within the indictment, as it's outdoors the statute of limitations. However the choose allowed Sokola to testify about it through the trial, together with a second alleged incident involving Weinstein she says occurred in 2004. Sokola beforehand filed a lawsuit in New York below the Youngster Victims Act over the alleged 2002 incident, which prosecutors mentioned has since been settled.

In 2013, Weinstein allegedly subjected Mann to intercourse with out her consent at a resort, in keeping with Lucey. Mann testified that Weinstein raped her after discovering out she had a critical boyfriend who was an actor. Lucey claimed Mann had additionally engaged in sexual encounters with Weinstein that weren't coerced out of concern of his energy within the trade.

The brand new trial comes after the New York Courtroom of Appeals overturned Weinstein's preliminary 2020 conviction final yr, discovering the trial choose "erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts in opposition to individuals apart from the complainants of the underlying crimes."

Weinstein has additionally appealed his conviction in December 2022 on intercourse offenses in Los Angeles. He was sentenced to 16 years in jail there.