Jurie deliberates in Harvey Weinsteins rape of rape | Mint

* Weinstein stares up to 25 years in prison if convicted * Former Hollywood mogul charged with rape, criminal sex acts * Weinstein currently serving 16 years on separate conviction (adds the jury for the day in paragraph 3) by Jack Queen and Jody New York, June 5 (Reuters) in Harvey Weinstein’s rape and the summit at the summit on Thursday in a Jurers. Judge instructed them to weigh the credibility of the three accusers who said the defense about their encounters with the once mighty filmmogul. The Academy Award-winning producer and co-founder of Miramax studio is accused of raping prospective actress Jessica Mann in 2013 and assaulting two other women in 2006 and 2002. Weinstein, who denied that they ever had non-consensual sex or assaulted someone, appointed notice. The hearing began in April. The jury was excused for the day after consulting about five hours and requested to review Mann’s medical records shown during the hearing, as well as evidence of Kaja Sokola, who were assaulted in Manhattan in 2006. The jury is expected to continue to deliberate on Friday morning. Weinstein, 73, was heard for a second time after an appeal court in New York threw his conviction in April 2024. He sentenced to 25 years in prison for two counts of criminal sexual acts and up to four years for one rape. The New York High Court, Curtis Farber, instructed the 12 jurors over the law and rejected four alternative jurors on Thursday morning. After the jury was sent to deliberate, Weinstein, sitting in a wheelchair and carrying a dark gray suit, resigning Farber and court staff. “I am incredibly treated,” he said. Weinstein’s defense lawyer Arthur Aidala moved to a trial earlier Thursday morning, as Farber replaced a juror who was sick with a replacement. The judge denied the motion. Aidala asked the judge several times to declare a abuse, including the shutters of the prosecutors, which concluded on Wednesday. Weinstein is already serving a 16 -year imprisonment after being convicted of rape in California in December 2022. Prosecutors at the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, portrayed Weinstein as a serial predator who promised the career promotion in Hollywood to women, only to lure them into private institutions where he attacked them. “He held the golden ticket, the chance to make it or not. He made each of these women feel small, no match for Hollywood’s power broker, “prosecutor Nicole Blumberg told Juriel members on Wednesday. Weinstein’s defense lawyers said his encounters with the women were consensual and accused them of being raped that they were raped after not raising in Hollywood by sleeping with him. “They’re lying about what happened. Not about everything, but about a small slide – just enough to turn their regret, repentance from their buyers, to delinquency,” Aidala told the jurors on Tuesday. Weinstein was convicted of rape by a jury in Manhattan in February 2020, but New York Court of Appeals threw the conviction and ordered a new hearing, citing errors by the trial judge. Weinstein served a 23 -year sentence in a prison in Upstate Rome, New York, when the conviction was overturned. The conviction was a milestone for the #MeToo movement, which encouraged women to come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct by mighty men. Weinstein was held in the Rikers Island Jail in New York since his conviction was overturned. He had several health frightened while being held at Rikers, and in September he was rushed to a hospital for emergency heart surgery. More than 100 women, including well -known actresses, have accused Weinstein of misconduct. He denied that he had assaulted someone or had non-consensual sex. Miramax Studio produced many hit films at its flowering period, including ‘Shakespeare in Love’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’. Weinstein’s own eponymous film studio applied for bankruptcy in March 2018, five months after the original sexual misconduct accusations were widely published. (Reporting by Jack Queen in New York; Editing by Noeleen Walder, Deepa Babington and Chizu Nomiyama)