Overview
- Prosecutors formally withdrew the 2013 rape charge on Friday after a Manhattan prosecutor read a letter from Jessica Mann saying she could not endure another round of testimony.
- Mann told courts she suffered a recent concussion and experienced dissociation during testimony, and prosecutors said her decision and wellbeing justified dismissing the case.
- The Manhattan charge had a fraught history, with an earlier conviction vacated and two subsequent juries deadlocking, which led to repeated retrials before Friday's dismissal.
- Weinstein remains jailed under other convictions in New York and California, and a California appeals court has ordered a resentencing of his 16-year term after finding a penalty-calculation error.
- Weinstein's lawyers continue to deny the allegations and plan further appeals, and prosecutors still seek a separate New York sentence in September on an existing conviction.