Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan sex-crimes retrial was thrown into chaos Wednesday as jurors agreed to convict him on one cost — however failed to achieve a verdict on a rape allegation.
The surprising second adopted a number of dramatic days of deliberations marked by squabbles amongst jurors — together with hours earlier than the partial verdict was introduced when the foreman claimed to have been threatened by one other member of the panel.
The decide hauled the jurors into the courtroom and had been able to ship them residence for the day — once they launched they’d reached a verdict on two of the three fees towards the disgraced Hollywood mogul.
Jurors convicted Weinstein of felony intercourse act within the first diploma for allegedly assaulting Miriam “Mimi” Haley, a former TV manufacturing assistant, at his SoHo loft in 2006.
However they acquitted the Miramax perv of felony intercourse act within the first diploma tied to claims from former mannequin Kaja Sokola, who testified that Weinstein forcibly carried out oral intercourse on her at a Tribeca resort in 2006, days shy of her twentieth birthday.
The jurors have been ordered to maintain deliberating Thursday on the rely of third-degree rape tied to allegations made by ex-actress Jessica Mann.
Mann sobbed on the stand whereas describing Weinstein raping her inside a Midtown resort room in 2013, and discovering the intercourse fiend’s erection-inducing drug needle within the trash afterward.
