Overview
- The new Manhattan trial opened Tuesday with opening statements to a 12-person jury and is expected to run into the second week of May.
- Weinstein is charged with third-degree rape tied to an alleged March 2013 hotel-room assault on actress Jessica Mann.
- Prosecutor Candace White told jurors the case is about power and control and alleged he forced oral sex on Mann and urinated on her.
- Defense lawyer Jacob Kaplan argued the encounters were consensual and presented affectionate emails from Mann to back that claim.
- Weinstein is already serving a 16-year sentence from a 2022 Los Angeles conviction, so he remains in prison regardless of this verdict.