New York prosecutors drop rape charge against Harvey Weinstein
New York prosecutors dropped a rape charge against Harvey Weinstein after accuser Jessica Mann said she cannot endure a fourth trial. The unresolved count had been tried three times in New York without producing a final guilty verdict, and prosecutors announced they will not retry it. Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg read a statement from Mann saying the case had "stolen a decade" of her life and that she cannot testify again. The Manhattan district attorney's office said it believes Mann's account and her credibility as a witness even as it dismissed the charge. Weinstein remains convicted on other sexual-offense charges in New York and California and remains incarcerated; the dismissal ends any prospect of a fourth New York trial on this allegation.
![[Weinstein’s victim], a hairstylist an actor, spent days on the witness stand at all three trials, telling jurors that Weinstein raped her in a Manhattan hotel in 2013 — and being questioned extensively about the complex relationship she had with him before and afterward. The Oscar-winning producer denied the charge and said everything that happened between him and [the survivor] was consensual.
In a letter that prosecutor Nicole Blumberg quoted in court Thursday, [the survivor] said she could “no longer endure going through this,” adding that the 8-year-old case has “put me through more harm than good.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v7e2mavuqgjnludex7csmdhn/bafkreibwnzpk2kh6ltdzvs2l6bx7xwuoqzegkzlldorlglrzlhnndqvz74)
