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Edward Helmore in New York

Harvey Weinstein weighing guilty plea to resolve third-degree rape charge

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Harvey Weinstein in Manhattan supreme court in New York City on 8 January. Photograph: Steven Hirsch/EPA

Disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is weighing a potential guilty plea to resolve an undecided third-degree rape charge and avoid a third trial in New York on charges that came to define the #MeToo era.

Weinstein, in a wheelchair and looking noticeably paler than he did when he was last in court in June, was brought to Judge Curtis Farber’s court on Thursday, seeking to have his latest sex crime conviction thrown out over claims of juror intimidation.

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