Only one juror thought the 79-year-old
entertainer was guilty on the third charge, the jury member said
in describing the 52 hours of deliberations that ended in a
mistrial on Saturday.
Cosby is facing a second trial for allegedly drugging and
sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home near
Philadelphia in 2004. The case is the only criminal prosecution
to emerge from dozens of similar allegations against him.
[nL1N1JE0A8]
Two jury members were "not moving, no matter what" on the first
and third counts of aggravated sexual assault, said the juror,
who spoke to ABC News on condition of anonymity.
The juror declined to identify the holdouts or detail how any
jury member voted.
On the second count, that Constand was unconscious or unaware
during the incident, the vote was 11 to one to acquit, the juror
said.
The jury member told ABC News on Monday that jurors initially
voted overwhelmingly in a non-binding poll to find Cosby not
guilty on all counts.
The jury deadlocked after 30 hours of deliberations and there
was no movement after that, the juror said, adding that the
tension was heightened by the size of the tiny deliberation
room.
"People couldn’t even pace,” the jury member said. “They were
just literally walking in circles where they were standing
because they were losing their minds.
"People would just start crying out of nowhere, we wouldn’t even
be talking about (the case) - and people would just start
crying.”
On Wednesday, Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Judge
Steven O'Neill released the names of the jurors and set strict
limits on what they can tell the public about the deliberations.
One of the six alternate jurors has told a Pittsburgh radio
station he would have voted to convict Cosby.
The original jury was brought across the state from Pittsburgh
to Montgomery County, outside Philadelphia, out of concern about
the amount of pretrial publicity the case generated.
(Reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington and Joseph Ax in New
York; Editing by Scott Malone, Toni Reinhold)
[© 2017 Thomson Reuters. All rights
reserved.] Copyright 2017 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
![](column_spacer.png) |
|