Harvey Weinstein faces a new trial while the jury seated

While the first day of selection of the jury for the Harvey Weinstein trial started in Manhattan, around 70 potential jurors moved to the courtroom and were invited to stand. As they sworn, the clerk said that the name of Mr. Weinstein and a woman were breaking.

The judge rejected more than half of this group after declaring that they have provided conflicts or that they could not be impartial in the trial of Mr. Weinstein, a Hollywood magnate whose name has become synonymous with sexual abuse. And thus went four days during which the judge, the prosecutors and the defense lawyers slowly defeated nearly 300 people.

On Tuesday, for the second time in five years, a jury of 12 Manhattanites and six alternates was chosen to decide the fate of Mr. Weinstein.

The judge and the lawyers criticized dozens of people who showed various degrees of shock, interest and opinion on Mr. Weinstein, whose fall in the midst of accusations of sexual assault and harassment propelled the #MeToo movement.

Mr. Weinstein, 73, faces two leaders of the first degree criminal sex and one of the third degree rape after complaints of three women who declared having attacked them in 2006 and 2013.

He was sentenced in 2020 for rape and criminal sexual act on the basis of complaints of two of women and was sentenced to 23 years in New York prison. But his conviction was canceled last year and a new trial was ordered. In the meantime, the prosecutors added a new indictment.