Overview
- Manhattan prosecutors moved to dismiss the unresolved third‑degree rape count against Harvey Weinstein after Jessica Mann said she would not testify again, a decision announced Thursday.
- DA Alvin Bragg said his office believes Mann’s account and praised her for testifying in multiple proceedings while prosecutors asked the court to seek a 20‑year sentence for Weinstein on a separate criminal sexual act conviction.
- Weinstein remains behind bars on other convictions and appeals, and a California appeals court on Friday affirmed his 2022 conviction there but vacated the 16‑year sentence and ordered resentencing.
- The case follows a long procedural arc: a 2020 New York conviction was overturned in 2024 because of improperly admitted testimony, which led to narrow retrials that produced convictions, acquittals and two mistrials on the Mann count.
- The dismissal highlights the personal cost to accusers after repeated testimony and shifts the near‑term legal focus to sentencing in New York this year and continuing appeals and resentencing proceedings in California.