Overview

• Twelve jurors began deliberations on June 5 after prosecutors and defense lawyers delivered their closing arguments in Weinstein’s six-week retrial in Manhattan.
• Prosecutors urged a guilty verdict on charges that Weinstein lured women with promises of work before sexually assaulting Mimi Haleyi, Jessica Mann and Kaja Sokola between 2006 and 2013.
• Defense attorney Arthur Aidala portrayed Weinstein as a victim of false claims and accused the women of scheming to advance their careers with untrue allegations.
• The retrial was ordered after the New York Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s 2020 conviction due to procedural errors over unproven prior-act testimony.
• Weinstein is already serving a 16-year sentence from a 2023 California conviction and faces up to 25 additional years if convicted in New York.