Weinstein jury set to keep deliberating after tensions spill into public

NEW YORK -- Jurors successful Harvey Weinsteinn'ssex crimes retrial look to beryllium moving past immoderate interpersonal tensions and focusing connected 1 of his 3 accusers arsenic deliberations agelong into a 4th time Tuesday.

At the extremity of Monday's session, jurors requested to commencement disconnected Tuesday with physics copies of emails and different grounds pertaining to Jessica Mann — the accuser with arguably the astir analyzable history with Weinstein.

During days of testimony, Mann said the Oscar-winning movie shaper raped her successful 2013 amid a consensual narration that continued for years afterward. Weinstein’s lawyers emphasized that she kept seeing him, accepting invitations and sending lukewarm messages to him. Mann said she “compartmentalized” the symptom helium caused her.

Weinstein, 73, has pleaded not blameworthy to each the charges successful the case. In summation to the rape charge, he's accused of sexually assaulting 2 different women, Mimi Haley and Kaja Sokola.

Weinstein didn't testify during the existent trial, but maintained done his attorneys that helium had wholly consensual encounters with his accusers, who wanted his assistance gathering amusement concern careers.

Weinstein was 1 of the movie industry's astir almighty figures until a bid of intersexual misconduct allegations against him became nationalist successful 2017, fueling the #MeToo movement and yet starring to transgression charges.

The assemblage is made up of seven women and 5 men. Their closed-door discussions began Thursday and seemingly person been fractious astatine times.

One juror asked Friday to beryllium excused due to the fact that helium felt 1 subordinate of the radical was being treated unfairly. Monday began with 2 jurors giving contrasting takes connected the ambiance successful the deliberation room.

First, the foreperson complained to the judge, prosecutors and defence lawyers that immoderate jurors were “pushing" others to alteration their minds, talking astir Weinstein's past and going beyond the charges.

The foreperson didn't specify what was said. Trial grounds has included immoderate grounds astir allegations extracurricular the scope of the existent charges, specified arsenic mentions of the groundswell of claims against the ex-studio brag successful 2017.

Another juror soon asked to talk to the court. In her estimation, things were “going well” and jurors were ”making headway.” By the extremity of Monday, the assemblage arsenic a full said successful a enactment that it was “making bully progress.”

Weinstein originally was convicted successful New York successful 2020 of raping Mann and forcing oral enactment connected Haley. Sokola's allegation was added past year, aft New York state's highest tribunal overturned the 2020 condemnation and sent the lawsuit backmost for retrial.

Meanwhile, Weinstein is appealing a 2022 rape conviction successful Los Angeles.

The Associated Press mostly does not place radical without their support if they accidental they person been sexually assaulted. Sokola, Mann and Haley person agreed to beryllium named.