Mixed verdict in Harvey Weinstein sex crimes retrial | News

The jury in the Harvey Weinstein sex crimes retrial in New York has returned a mixed partial verdict.

The panel of seven women and five men found Weinstein, 73, guilty of criminal sexual act in the first degree against former TV production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006, and found him not guilty on the same charge involving former Polish model and actress Kaja Sokola in 2006.

The jury has not yet delivered a verdict on the count of rape in the third degree involving actress Jessica Mann in 2013 and will resume deliberations on Thursday.

According to reports tensions have flared among the jurors, who deliberated for five days before returning the mixed verdict.

A conviction for criminal sexual act in the first degree carries a maximum sentence of 25 years.

Prosecutors refiled the charges of first degree criminal sexual act and third degree rape involving Haley and Mann, respectively. The counts formed the basis of Weinstein’s 2020 New York trial, which resulted in his conviction and 23-year sentence and marked a milestone in the #MeToo movement.

The conviction was overturned by New York Court of Appeals last year when appellate judges found the original trial wrongly admitted testimony of “prior bad acts” against women who were not complainants in the trial and testified to show Weinstein had a propensity to commit such acts.

The third charge involving Sokola was new. Mann, Haley, and Sokola all consented to be identified during the hearing.

Weinstein pleaded not guilty to all three charges. The disgraced former Hollywood mogul previously received a 16-year sentence handed down by a Los Angeles court in 2023 after he was convicted of raping an actress in 2013.

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