Weinstein Jury Ends First Day of Deliberation With No Verdict
The jury in the Harvey Weinstein trial has ended the first day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.
The jury got the case on Tuesday morning after a six-week trial, in which six women took the stand to accuse the disgraced producer of sexual assault. Weinstein faces five counts, including two counts of predatory sexual assault, which carries a potential life sentence.
Less than an hour into its deliberations, the jurors asked Justice James Burke for guidance in interpreting the verdict form. They asked for legal definitions of terms like forcible compulsion and consent, and also asked for an explanation on the law of why we may find the defendant guilty for predatory assault only and not other crimes.
Weinstein is accused of raping Jessica Mann at the DoubleTree hotel on March 18, 2013, and of sexually assaulting Miriam Haley at his Soho apartment in 2006. Prosecutors also allege that Weinstein raped Annabella Sciorra at her Manhattan apartment in the early 1990s.
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