{"id":1691,"date":"2026-05-15T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/15\/harvey-weinstein-granted-mistrial-for-third-time\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:43:00","slug":"harvey-weinstein-granted-mistrial-for-third-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/15\/harvey-weinstein-granted-mistrial-for-third-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein Granted Mistrial For Third Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tThe New York judge overseeing the sex crimes trial of Harvey Weinstein<\/a> on Friday declared a mistrial after the jury said continuing deliberations wouldn\u2019t return a unanimous verdict.<\/p>\n

\tThe decision to grant Weinstein\u2019s bid for a mistrial followed a stalemate in which jurors remained deadlocked in the third trial over the rape charge in New York. They deliberated for three days.<\/p>\n

\tProsecutors have 30 days to decide whether to pursue another retrial on a charge of the third-degree rape of Jessica Mann.<\/p>\n

\tIn a statement, Marc Agnifilo, a lawyer for Weinstein, urged the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office to \u201cstop retrying the same case and focus its time and resources on the actual violent crime, chaos, and public safety issues impacting New Yorkers every day.\u201d He added, \u201cAfter hearing the evidence multiple times and seeing two juries unable to reach unanimity, it\u2019s clear there is significant reasonable doubt here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIf convicted, Weinstein faced a sentence of up to four years. He\u2019s already served more time in prison than the charge carries, though he\u2019s less than halfway through his 16-year term in California and has yet to be sentenced for the sexual assault charge he was convicted of last year in New York. Judge Curtis Farber has said he would sentence him after a decision on the remaining count is reached.<\/p>\n

\tDuring the trial, Mann testified that Weinstein raped her in 2013 at a Manhattan hotel. She described him holding the door shut as she tried to leave, after which he told her to undress and had penetrative sex with her.<\/p>\n

\tThe defense maintained that the encounter was consensual, highlighting friendly notes Mann wrote at the time to the disgraced producer. Across the three trials, she\u2019s been pressed about her relationship with Weinstein, which included consensual sex. <\/p>\n

\tAt a trial last year, a New York jury acquitted Weinstein of sexually assaulting Kaja Sokola. The verdict came after New York\u2019s highest court in 2024 overturned his rape conviction in a landmark ruling that some called a referendum of the shortcomings of the #MeToo movement. A seven-judge panel of the state Courts of Appeals, in a 4-3 decision, found <\/a>that the \u201ctrial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts\u201d in what amounted to an \u201cabuse of judicial discretion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIn California, a jury in 2023 found Weinstein guilty of three counts \u2014 forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and penetration by foreign object \u2014 against Jane Doe 1. He was acquitted of sexual battery by restraint against Jane Doe 3. The jury couldn\u2019t reach a decision on the charges Weinstein faced of forcible rape and forcible oral copulation against Jane Doe 4, who revealed herself as Jennifer Siebel Newsom, and sexual battery by restraint against Jane Doe 2. Jurors voted to convict him eight to four on charges related to Jane Doe 4 and 10 to two on the charge related to Jane Doe 2. The conviction is on appeal. <\/p>\n

\tPointing to the mistrial on Friday, Agnifilo stressed that the result shows \u201chow deeply public perception and prejudice surrounding Harvey Weinstein have become embedded in society.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cFor some people, regardless of the evidence presented, saying \u2018not guilty\u2019 has become emotionally or socially impossible,\u201d he said. His defense team included Teny Geragos and Jacob Kaplan. <\/p>\n

\tIn an interview<\/a> with \u30cf\u30ea\u30a6\u30c3\u30c9\u30fb\u30ea\u30dd\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc <\/em>earlier this year, Weinstein acknowledged there were power imbalances in relationships with his accusers but that he never raped them. \u201cI know I can be scary and difficult. But that\u2019s still a long way from sexual assault,\u201d he said. \u201cOver-flirtation, ridiculous situations. Bad and stupid behavior. Yes. But I didn\u2019t push anybody. I didn\u2019t physically move anybody. I didn\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tWeinstein, 74, will await a decision on another retrial as his health declines. He suffers from numerous conditions, including bone marrow cancer, chronic myeloid leukemia and coronary artery disease. \u201cI\u2019m dying here,\u201d he said in the interview with THR<\/em>. \u201cAnd the DA\u2019s idea is probably to have me dying in prison. But I am dying.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Logo text The New York judge overseeing the sex crimes trial of Harvey Weinstein on Friday declared a mistrial after the jury said continuing deliberations wouldn\u2019t return a unanimous verdict. The decision to grant Weinstein\u2019s bid for a mistrial followed a stalemate in which jurors remained deadlocked in the third trial over the rape charge in New York. They deliberated for three days. Prosecutors have 30 days to decide whether to pursue another retrial on a charge of the third-degree rape of Jessica Mann. In a statement, Marc Agnifilo, a lawyer for Weinstein, urged the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office to \u201cstop retrying the same case and focus its time and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,1086,2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-harvey-weinstein","category-hollywood","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}