Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein won’t serve time on a third-degree rape charge after a mistrial was declared on Thursday, but he likely could be tried again.
June 12 Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein won’t serve time on a third-degree rape charge after a mistrial was declared on Thursday, but he likely could be tried again.
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Curtis Farber ruled the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on the rape charge and declared a mistrial, the reported.
The declaration means Weinstein could be tried again on the charge, but the jury’s conviction on one count of sexual assault stands. Weinstein was acquitted on a second count of sexual assault.
He faces up to 25 years in prison, minus time already served, for the sexual assault conviction.
Weinstein, 73, also is slated to serve a 16-year sentence in California in a separate case that involved similar charges.
