Judge declared a mistrial after the jury foreperson said he wouldn’t continue deliberating
The judge in Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes case declared a mistrial on the remaining rape charge after the jury foreperson said he wouldn’t continue deliberating.
The decision to end deliberations on Thursday came a day after the jury delivered a partial verdict, convicting the ex-studio boss of one of the top charges and acquitting him of another. Both charges concern accusations of forcing oral sex on women in 2006. Those verdicts still stand.
But the foreperson complained on Wednesday that he felt bullied by another juror, and on Thursday said he wouldn’t go back into the jury room, leaving the jury left considering the third charge, a rape accusation dating to 2013.
The jury of seven women and five men unanimously reached the first two decisions last Friday, the foreperson later told the judge. The verdict was delivered on Wednesday only because Judge Curtis Farber asked whether there was agreement on any of the charges.
