Overview
- Manhattan prosecutors moved to dismiss the unresolved third-degree rape charge on Thursday, June 25, 2026, after Jessica Mann told the court she would not undergo a fourth trial.
- Prosecutors said they believe Mann’s account but concluded they should not subject her to further testimony after she described the ordeal as damaging and exhausting.
- The Mann allegation was tried three times after Weinstein’s 2020 conviction was overturned by the New York Court of Appeals in 2024 for procedural reasons, and two recent retrials ended in deadlocked juries.
- Weinstein remains in custody with other convictions intact; prosecutors asked a judge to impose 20 years for the Miriam Haley criminal sexual act conviction and he also faces a separate 16-year sentence in California that is under appeal.
- The dismissal closes one strand of the high-profile #MeToo-era prosecution but does not erase Weinstein’s other convictions or ongoing appeals, and attention will turn to upcoming New York sentencing and appellate proceedings.