What you need to know about Harvey Weinstein's retrial

Five years ago, Oscar-winning Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of third-degree rape following one of the landmark trials of the #MeToo era.

Five years ago, Oscar-winning Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of third-degree rape following one of the landmark trials of the #MeToo era. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

But that was not the end of his legal saga.

In a stunning turn of events last year, Weinstein’s conviction was thrown out by a New York appeals court. The decision paved the way for a new trial, which started this week with jury selection.

Here’s what you need to know about Weinstein’s retrial, and how we got here.

In late February 2020, a New York jury convicted Weinstein of one count of rape in the third degree of Jessica Mann, a former aspiring actress, and one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree against Mimi Haley, a former “Project Runway” production assistant.