NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� 鈥檚 rape retrial ended in a mistrial Friday after the jury deadlocked in the closely watched #MeToo-era case that another jury .
While the former Hollywood mogul has been convicted of other sex crimes on two U.S. coasts and remains behind bars, the mistrial leaves the New York rape charge in limbo after three trials. Weinstein appeared expressionless as court officers ushered him out in his wheelchair.
A majority-male Manhattan jury had been weighing whether Weinstein raped , a hairstylist and actor. Weinstein鈥檚 lawyers argued that the encounter was consensual. It happened in 2013 during a between the then-married Weinstein and the decades-younger Mann.
The signs of stalemate emerged Friday a few hours into the third day of deliberations. Jurors sent a note saying they 鈥渉ave concluded that they cannot reach鈥� a unanimous verdict. 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.
A hearing was set for June 24 to learn whether prosecutors will choose to go to a fourth trial.
An appeals court his on charges that involved Mann and another accuser. At a retrial last year, jury deliberations broke down amid infighting 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 have emphasized that Mann subsequently continued seeing Weinstein after the encounter 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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