By Jody Godoy

NEW YORK (Reuters) -The judge overseeing former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s rape and sexual assault trial refused on Friday to dismiss a juror who said some jurors were treating others on the 12-person panel unfairly.

“I just don’t think it’s fair and just,” the juror told New York Supreme Court Justice Curtis Farber in court, referring to things other jurors were saying and doing behind another juror’s back.

“There is a bit of a shunning happening,” the juror said.

The juror asked to be dismissed but Farber said there was no legal basis to do so after the juror confirmed that no one on the jury panel was pressuring him to change his view of the case.

“If any other juror feels they need to talk to me, they can,” the judge said. Weinstein’s lawyers said they would

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