NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� returned to court and jurors resumed deliberating in his rape retrial Thursday, a day after the former movie tycoon while in the courthouse.
Weinstein, who’s 74 and has a and other health woes, looked pale but alert as he was brought into court in the wheelchair he has used for years. He said he felt 鈥済ood, fine.鈥�
The ex-studio boss was in a courthouse holding area Wednesday when jurors, after a few hours of deliberating, sent a note asking to rehear some of accuser 鈥檚 testimony and to review a lengthy prosecution timeline of emails and other evidence.
After defense lawyers, prosecutors and Judge Curtis Farber convened in court to decide how to respond, Weinstein attorney Marc Agnifilo said court officers had told him Weinstein was experiencing chest pains.
Weinstein wasn’t brought into court at that point, and Farber ultimately sent jurors home Wednesday a bit earlier than planned, telling them there were 鈥渦nforeseen reasons鈥� for the early dismissal.
Jurors got the requested information Thursday, revisiting testimony that Agnifilo had highlighted in his : a moment when Mann said she was 鈥渟pacing out鈥� as a defense lawyer asked why she didn鈥檛 want a friend to know that anything sexual had happened between her and Weinstein. The defense was trying to suggest that she was worried about her reputation, not an alleged rape that Weinstein says never happened.
Jurors returned to their closed-door discussions. Over the ensuing hours, the jury asked to rehear Mann’s testimony about the alleged rape and the lead-up to it, and to go over the judge’s instructions on reasonable doubt. That’s the legal bar that evidence must clear to justify a conviction.
Mann, 40, that she willingly had some sexual interludes with the then-married producer, but that he subjected her to unwanted sex in a Manhattan hotel room in March 2013 after she repeatedly said no.
Weinstein’s lawyers maintain that the encounter was consensual. They have emphasized that Mann subsequently continued seeing Weinstein 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 against the Oscar-winning Weinstein propelled the #MeToo campaign to hold people 鈥� especially powerful men 鈥� accountable for sexual misbehavior. Weinstein he 鈥渁cted wrongly鈥� but never assaulted anyone.
Some of those accusations generated criminal convictions against Weinstein in New York and .
An appeals court his on charges that involved Mann and another accuser. At a retrial last year, jurors on Mann’s portion of the case, leading to . Weinstein is charged with one count of rape in the third degree.
The current jury heard nearly three weeks of testimony, 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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