Overview
- Defense lawyers introduced a 2013 note on Thursday that Jessica Mann wrote two days after the alleged Manhattan rape, which described feeling emotionally attached and did not mention an assault.
- Prosecutors say Mann’s relationship with Harvey Weinstein included rapes in 2013, while the defense argues every encounter was consensual and that her accusations arose years later during the #MeToo wave.
- Under cross-examination, Mann said she loved “a part of him” and also testified he treated her “like he owned me,” comments the defense used to question how jurors should read consent and control.
- The court ended early on Thursday after Mann said she felt spacey and dissociated while recounting events, and her testimony is set to continue on Friday.
- This is Weinstein’s third New York trial after his 2020 conviction was overturned and a retrial jury hung on this charge, with the current case proceeding under tighter limits on other-accuser testimony while he remains imprisoned on separate California convictions.