Harvey Weinstein Loses Bid to Toss NY Sex Assault Guilty Verdict

A New York judge denied Harvey Weinstein’s request to throw out the ex-mogul’s sexual assault conviction and ordered prosecutors to retry him in March on a separate rape charge that had ended in a hung jury.

Weinstein’s claims that jurors bullied one another into the guilty verdict don’t rise to the level of granting him a new trial, Judge Curtis Farber said.

Farber’s pair of rulings Thursday was the latest legal setback for the Miramax co-founder, who has been jailed at New York’s Rikers Island as he seeks to undo the 2025 verdict.

They led to a courtroom outcry ...