Overview
- Jurors began weighing one count that he raped Jessica Mann in a Manhattan hotel in 2013 after closing arguments ended.
- Jessica Mann testified that he trapped her in a room, told her to undress, and had sex after she said no.
- Defense lawyers said the encounter was consensual and cited warm emails, later meetings, and a diary-like note she wrote two days after the night.
- Prosecutors said he manipulated an aspiring actor who had no motive to lie and asked jurors to credit her testimony.
- The retrial follows a 2020 conviction that an appeals court overturned and a hung jury last year, and any new term would likely not change his current imprisonment on other sex-crime convictions.