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NEW YORK -- Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial ended in a mistrial Friday
after the jury deadlocked in the closely watched #MeToo-era case that
another jury failed to decide last year.

While the former Hollywood mogul has been convicted of other sex crimes
on two U.S. coasts and remains behind bars, the mistrial leaves the New
York rape charge in limbo after three trials.

A majority-male Manhattan jury had been weighing whether Weinstein raped Jessica Mann, a hairstylist and actor. Weinstein's lawyers argued that
the encounter was consensual. It happened in 2013 during a fraught
relationship between the then-married Weinstein and the decades-younger
Mann.

The signs of stalemate emerged Friday a few hours into the third day of deliberations. Jurors sent a note saying they "have concluded that they
cannot reach" a unanimous verdict. Judge Curtis Farber instructed the
group to continue deliberating. That's generally what New York judges do
at least the first time a jury says it's stuck.

An appeals court overturned his 2020 New York conviction on charges that involved Mann and another accuser. At a retrial last year, jury
deliberations broke down amid infighting on Mann's portion of the case,
leading to this current retrial. Weinstein is charged with one count of
rape in the third degree.

Mann, 40, has testified that she willingly had some sexual interludes
with the then-married producer, but that he subjected her to unwanted
sex that day after she repeatedly said no.

Weinstein's lawyers have emphasized that Mann subsequently continued
seeing Weinstein after the encounter and expressing warmth toward him.
Mann has said she was mired in complicated feelings about him, herself
and what had happened.

Her viewpoint changed in 2017, when a series of allegations against the Oscar-winning Weinstein propelled #MeToo. Some of those accusations
generated criminal convictions against Weinstein in New York and
California.

Weinstein, 74, has said he "acted wrongly" but never assaulted anyone.

The current jury heard nearly three weeks of testimony, five days of it
from Mann. Weinstein did not testify.

The Associated Press generally does not identify people who say they
have been sexually assaulted. Mann, however, has agreed to be named.

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