Overview
- Jury selection began Tuesday in Manhattan, with many prospective jurors excused and no panel seated after several said they could not be impartial.
- This narrow case centers on a single count of third‑degree rape tied to Jessica Mann’s claim that Weinstein assaulted her in a New York hotel room in 2013, a charge that carries up to four years in prison.
- Prosecutors disclosed an alleged 2020 remark to a court officer—“If you had seen these girls, you would have done the exact same thing”—and the judge questioned the late report as prosecutors said they would seek to use it only if Weinstein testifies.
- The proceeding follows last year’s mixed verdict that convicted Weinstein in Miriam Haley’s case, acquitted him in Kaja Sokola’s, and ended in a mistrial on Mann’s allegation.
- Weinstein remains in custody, serving a 16‑year California sentence he is appealing with a hearing set for April 23, and he appears in court in a wheelchair as his new lawyers Marc Agnifilo and Jacob Kaplan lead the defense.