Overview
- Judge Curtis Farber scheduled jury selection to begin April 14 in Manhattan for Weinstein’s retrial focused on a single charge.
- The case centers on an alleged third-degree rape involving Jessica Mann, a Class E felony in New York carrying a maximum four-year sentence.
- Weinstein installed a new defense team of Jacob Kaplan, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, while former lead attorney Arthur Aidala remains to pursue an appeal of the 2025 conviction.
- The prior retrial ended with a guilty verdict for a criminal sexual act against Miriam Haley, an acquittal on a charge involving Kaja Sokola, and a mistrial on the Mann count after the jury foreperson refused to continue deliberations.
- Weinstein, 73, appeared in court in a wheelchair and remains incarcerated on a separate 16-year sentence from his Los Angeles conviction.