In a renewed process with former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, a 12-member jury on Thursday She was unable to agree on the indictment point of the accusation of the rape of actress Jessica Mann in a hotel in Manhattan in 2013. Judge Curtis Farber therefore declared the proceedings at this point invalid and announced that he would repeat later, informs TASR referring to AFP.
The renewed process also concerned the allegations that In 2006, 73-year-old Weinstein forced production assistant Miriam Haley to oral sex. At this point the jury on Wednesday acknowledged guilty.
In the original process, the jury in New York Weinstein condemned on these points in March 2020 for 23 years in prison. However, the Court of Appeal in New York For procedural errors in April 2024, he canceled and ordered the recovery of proceedings. He justified this in particular by the fact that as evidence was admitted by testimonies that were not part of the indictment.
To these two allegations in the meantime There was also an accusation of sexual assault on the beginning actress Kaje Sokolová, Born in Poland in 2002. At this point, the jury composed of seven women and five men of Weinstein liberated under the accusations.
At the point of indictment concerning Mann’s judge, he first asked the jury to continue negotiations, but eventually accepted her explanation that its members failed to reach a match. According to AFP, the jury’s meeting was stormy, and its chairman refused to continue his office. The jurors were screaming at each other, and one of them said, according to the judge Farmer, something in the sense: “We will meet outside once.”
Weinstein rejects all allegations And he claims that his intimate contacts with women were consensual. He is currently serving a 16-year imprisonment for a sexual assault for which he was sentenced in a separate case in February 2023 in Los Angeles. Weinstein from sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior accused more than 100 women Including prominent actresses such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Uma Thurman.
