NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jurors started deliberating Wednesday in Harvey Weinstein<\/a> \u2019s rape retrial<\/a>, weighing an unresolved piece of a case that epitomized the #MeToo movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n The jury is tasked with deciding whether the former movie mogul raped hairstylist and actor Jessica Mann<\/a> in a Manhattan hotel on March 18, 2013.<\/p>\n Mann, 40, testified<\/a> that the two had a consensual relationship, but that Weinstein subjected her to unwanted sex that day after she repeatedly said no.<\/p>\n Lawyers for Weinstein, 74, have maintained that the encounter was consensual, and they have emphasized that Mann continued seeing Weinstein afterward and expressing warmth<\/a> toward him. Mann has said she was mired in complicated feelings about him, herself and what had happened and that she was \u201cnormalizing everything.\u201d<\/p>\n Her viewpoint changed in 2017, when a series of sexual misconduct allegations<\/a> against the Oscar-winning Weinstein propelled the #MeToo campaign to hold people \u2014 especially powerful men \u2014 accountable for sexual misbehavior. Weinstein has said<\/a> he \u201cacted wrongly\u201d but never assaulted anyone.<\/p>\n Some of those accusations later generated criminal convictions against Weinstein in New York and California<\/a>.<\/p>\n An appeals court overturned<\/a> his 2020 New York conviction<\/a> on charges that involved Mann and another accuser. At a retrial last year, jurors failed to reach a verdict<\/a> on Mann’s portion of the case, leading to a second retrial this year<\/a>. He is charged with one count of rape in the third degree.<\/p>\n