Bill Cosby Rape Case Ends In Mistrial As Jury Deadlocks!
Bill Cosby Rape Case Ends In Mistrial As Jury Deadlocks! (Video) (Photos)
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Didn’t we all have a feeling this would happen? The high-profile trial/circus show accusing Bill Cosby of aggravated indecent assault ended in a mistrial Saturday after a Pennsylvania jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision. Prosecutors immediately announced they will retry the case.
About an hour into the sixth day of deliberations, Judge Steven O’Neill declared the jury of seven men and five woman hopelessly deadlocked in a legal battle closely watched by the public as well as dozens of women who have accused Cosby of similar misconduct in the past. He faced three charges of aggravated indecent assault.
The case was almost 100% based on the credibility of Ms. Constand, a former Temple University employee. She testified that the assault occurred in a visit to the home of Mr. Cosby, who was a Temple trustee, when she was 30 and he was 66. She said that Mr. Cosby gave her pills that he said were herbal, but that left her immobile and drifting in and out of consciousness. He has said that he only gave her Benadryl.
“I was jolted awake and I felt Mr. Cosby’s hand groping my breasts under my shirt,” she testified last week. “I also felt his hand inside my vagina moving in and out, and I felt him take my hand and place it on his penis and move it back and forth.”
The “Factses?”
Mr. Cosby was charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault penetration with lack of consent, penetration while unconscious, and penetration after administering an intoxicant without the subject’s knowledge. Each is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in state prison…..wow.
The jury of 12 was composed of six white men, four white women, one black woman and one black man. They had reported being deadlocked on Thursday but then had resumed deliberations at the request of the judge. As it turned out, the deliberations ended up taking longer than the presentation of evidence had.
Soooo the circus continues…we just a four month break. Stay tuned…
