STORY: A judge on Friday declared a mistrial in Harvey Weinstein's third New York sex abuse trial, after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on a charge he raped aspiring actress Jessica Mann.
Weinstein had pleaded not guilty to one count of third-degree rape and has denied assaulting anyone or having non-consensual sex.
It was not immediately clear whether prosecutors would seek to try the case for a fourth time.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office brought the case, said his office was disappointed but respected the jury system.
This most recent trial centered on Mann's allegation that Weinstein raped her in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 while Mann resisted and repeatedly said "No."
At his first trial in New York in 2020, Weinstein was convicted of raping Mann and assaulting onetime production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006. But the state's highest court overturned the conviction and Weinstein's 23-year prison sentence after concluding he did not get a fair trial.
Once a top film producer, Weinstein's sexual misconduct allegations led to his downfall and fueled a wider social movement that encouraged women to come forward with accounts of sexual abuse by powerful men.
The 74-year-old is expected to remain behind bars due to his convictions in other cases.
