Cosby judge could revisit issue of revealing names of jurors

His lawyers were triumphant, his long-silent wife savaged the prosecutors, and his publicist claimed that Bill Cosby’s reputation was now “restored” after a jury failed to reach a verdict on whether he sexually assaulted a woman in 2004. “We came here looking for an acquittal but like that Rolling Stones song says, ‘You don’t always get what you want, sometimes you get what you need”, McMonagle said as he stood under the portico of the courthouse with Cosby.

The sexual assault trial regarding critically renowned comedian Bill Cosby and accusers has finally reached a decision-or at least a temporary one.

Also on Monday came the first public comments from a Cosby juror – one of six alternates who heard the evidence but did not deliberate – who said he was “sick” to hear a mistrial declared.

In new court documents, the prosecution asserted the court should withhold juror names to keep from compromising “an important right that will be prejudiced by publicity”, such as the defendant’s right to a fair trial. “We are entitled to them”.

“The key to retrying a case is to do it differently the second time, because the defense expects you to do it the same way”, said Troiani, whose client is on board for a retrial.

Approximately 60 accusations of sexual assault have been made against Cosby over a number of years, but only Constand’s resulted in criminal charges because the other alleged incidents were too old to prosecute.

“I felt like we let Andrea down”, McCloskey said.

“This case has garnered nationwide, and even global, media attention”, Steele wrote.

He reminded prosecutors and the defense that “a mistrial is neither vindication nor victory for anybody.”It wasn’t immediately known how many jurors wanted to convict and how many wanted to acquit”.

Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill has kept the identities of the panel members sealed since they were selected in Allegheny County and bused to Norristown for trial. Television satellite trucks clotted the street in front of the pre-Civil War stone courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, where Cosby’s trial was held.

Thanks for your continued support.. “I am eternally grateful for the messages I have received in recent days”, Andrea Constand said in a tweet Tuesday. She was an employee at his alma mater, Temple University, and they frequently interacted because of her work.

It would be reasonable, based on the evidence presented, for the jurors to agree that Cosby is a sexual predator and still disagree on a verdict as to the assault of Constand.

Mike McCloskey told a Pittsburgh radio station that he had served as an alternate and would have voted to convict Cosby. Prosecutors reopened a criminal investigation and filed charges in 2015 after Cosby’s deposition in the woman’s 2005 lawsuit was unsealed, and they realized the 12-year statute of limitations for felony sexual assault had not yet expired.