NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The jury in ‘s rape retrial said Friday it was at loggerheads in the closely watched #MeToo-era case, but a judge told the panel to keep trying for a verdict.
The signs of stalemate emerged a few hours into the third day of deliberations. Jurors sent a note saying they 鈥渉ave concluded that they cannot reach a verdict.鈥� Judge Curtis Farber instructed the group to continue deliberating. That’s generally what New York judges do at least the first time a jury says it’s stuck.
Jurors then returned to their closed-door discussions. They’re tasked with deciding whether Weinstein 鈥� the former movie mogul who became a symbol of the #MeToo movement’s campaign against sexual misconduct 鈥� raped hairstylist and actor Jessica Mann in a Manhattan hotel room in March 2013.
An appeals court his on charges that involved Mann and another accuser. At a retrial last year, jurors on Mann鈥檚 portion of the case, leading to . Weinstein is charged with one count of rape in the third degree.
Mann, 40, that she willingly had some sexual interludes with the then-married producer, but that he subjected her to unwanted sex that day after she repeatedly said no.
Weinstein’s lawyers maintain that the encounter was consensual. They have emphasized that Mann subsequently continued seeing Weinstein toward him. Mann has said she was mired in complicated feelings about him, herself and what had happened.
Her viewpoint changed in 2017, when a against the Oscar-winning Weinstein propelled #MeToo. Some of those accusations generated criminal convictions against Weinstein in New York and .
Weinstein, 74, he 鈥渁cted wrongly鈥� but never assaulted anyone.
The current jury heard nearly three weeks of testimony, of it from Mann. Weinstein did not testify.
The Associated Press generally does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted. Mann, however, has agreed to be named.
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