Crime & Safety
Harvey Weinstein Convicted Of Top Charge In Sex Crimes Retrial
The partial verdict comes after the sex crimes retrial began on April 23.

NEW YORK CITY — Harvey Weinstein was convicted on one of the top charges in his sex crimes retrial on Wednesday.
A jury found Weinstein guilty of sexually assaulting one woman but acquitted the former movie mogul of another sex charge and have yet to reach a verdict on a third charge.
The partial verdict comes after the sex crimes retrial began on April 23.
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Back in October 2024, a judge ruled that Weinstein's two Manhattan sex crimes cases can be consolidated and tried at the same trial.
The retried cases centered around two allegations from 2006 and 2013, Patch previously reported.
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Weinstein was also accused of "sexually assaulting a woman in a Lower Manhattan hotel on one occasion between April 29, 2006, and May 6, 2006," according to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
Weinstein's 2020 conviction was overturned in April 2024. In a 4-3 decision, the state Court of Appeals determined that the trial judge improperly allowed testimony concerning allegations unrelated to the case.
Weinstein has consistently denied any wrongdoing, maintaining that all encounters were consensual.
The allegations against Weinstein, which first surfaced in 2017 following bombshell reports in the New York Times and the New Yorker, are widely seen as a turning point in the #MeToo movement.
Jurors are expected to deliberate Thursday on a third charge that Weinstein raped another woman, hairstylist and actor Jessica Mann, in 2013.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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