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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jennifer Peltz

Harvey Weinstein says jurors were bullied into convicting him. A judge is set to rule

Sexual Misconduct Harvey Weinstein - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Harvey Weinstein returns to court Thursday, seeking to get his latest sex crime conviction thrown out because anger and apprehensions flared among jurors during deliberations last spring.

It's the latest convoluted turn in the former Hollywood honcho's path through the criminal justice system. His landmark #MeToo-era case has spanned seven years, trials in two states, a reversal in one and a retrial that came to a messy end in New York last year. Weinstein was convicted of forcing oral sex on one woman, acquitted of forcibly performing oral sex on another, and the jury didn't decide on a rape charge involving a third woman — a charge prosecutors vowed to retry yet again.

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