Overview
- On Thursday the Manhattan District Attorney announced it will not pursue a fourth trial in the Jessica Mann case because Mann said she cannot endure further testimony.
- A letter from Jessica Mann was read in court saying she cannot go back on the witness stand after years of testimony, and prosecutors said they believe her account.
- Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg said the office will concentrate on recommending a 20-year prison term for Weinstein for the Miriam Haley conviction rather than retrying the Mann count.
- The decision follows a complex legal history that included a 2020 New York conviction later partly overturned in 2024, a guilty retrial on the Haley count, and repeated hung juries in the Mann matter.
- Weinstein remains jailed on Rikers Island while already serving a separate 16-year California sentence, and any recommendation by prosecutors will be weighed and decided by a judge at sentencing.