The judge declared a mistrial on a rape charge after the jury foreman refused to continue deliberations due to a jury room dispute
The judge in Harvey Weinstein's sex crimes case declared a mistrial on the remaining rape charge after the jury foreman said he wouldn’t continue deliberating.
Deliberations were ended on Thursday, a day after the jury delivered a partial verdict in Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial. The jury got stuck on a third charge. It was a rape accusation dating to 2013.
The foreman complained on Wednesday that he felt bullied by another juror, and said on Thursday he wouldn’t go back into the jury room.
The panel convicted the ex-studio boss of one of the top charges but acquitted him of another. Both of those charges concerned accusations of forcing oral sex on women in 2006. Those verdicts still stand.
