In early 2020, the most coveted seat in downtown New York was a spot in Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes trial.
For four weeks, about 70 reporters and 30 public citizens endured frigid temperatures to secure a seat inside the 15th floor courtroom where Weinstein dodged questions from camera crews and ate fistfuls of candy as witnesses testified about how he lured them in with promises of career opportunities before sexually assaulting them.
On Wednesday, Weinstein was wheeled into Manhattan criminal court for the first time since his rape conviction was overturned in a shock decision.
There, he faced one of the women he was found guilty of abusing at the 2020 trial.
“Jessica Mann, one of the sexual assault victims in this case, is not backing down and is committed to knowing that justice is served again,” a Manhattan District Attorney prosecutor said at the hearing. “She has the truth.”
Mann, who was sitting in the courtroom in a red shirt, looked straight ahead as prosecutors vowed to retry Weinstein.
In a 4-3 decision, the New York Court of Appeals ruled last week that Weinstein’s trial judge “erroneously” allowed testimony from women with sexual misconduct allegations against him who were not victims in the case.
At trial, Weinstein was convicted of sexually assaulting former Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haleyi and raping Mann—but jurors heard from at least four other accusers that were meant to bolster the prosecution’s argument that he had a pattern of bad behavior.
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