The jury foreperson had sent a note Wednesday afternoon asking to speak to the judge and then told the attorneys and Farber: “I feel afraid inside there. I can’t be inside there.”

The jury delivered its partial verdict Wednesday, convicting the ex-studio boss of one of the top charges but acquitting him of another.

The accusations levied against him sparked the landmark #MeToo movement, and his convictions in New York on rape and sexual assault charges in 2020 and on sexual offenses in Los Angeles in 2022 were ...