Posted on 06/21/2017 7:03:31 PM PDT by JosephW
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, a juror in the Bill Cosby sexual assault case said that after dozens of hours of grueling deliberations in a tiny room, 10 of the 12 jurors agreed he was guilty on two counts. On a third count, only one of the jurors believed he was guilty. The final, intractable votes on the first of the three counts was 10 to two to find Cosby guilty of digitally penetrating accuser Andrea Constand without her consent, the juror said. On the second count, that she was unconscious or unaware during the incident, the juror said the vote was 11 to one to acquit. On the third count, that the alleged assault occurred after Cosby gave Constand drugs or intoxicants without her knowledge, substantially impairing her for the purpose of preventing her resistance, the jury was deadlocked at 10 to two, in favor of a guilty verdict, according to the juror. On counts one and three, the two holdouts against finding Cosby guilty were “not moving, no matter what,” said the juror, who agreed to speak to ABC News only on the condition of anonymity. Other jurors contacted by ABC News declined to comment. Cosby, 79, had been charged in 2015 with three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault stemming from a 2004 incident involving Constand at his home in Pennsylvania. Constand testified during the six-day trial that the comedian gave her a drug that rendered her incapable of stopping his alleged assault, though she said she tried. Though Cosby did not take the stand, he said in a decade-old deposition that he gave Benadryl to Constand to "relax" her, and then the two had a consensual sexual encounter. .
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This means the odds are in favor the conviction for Counts 1 and 3 in the next trial. The prosecutor convinced 10 of the 12 jurors this time around, so his argument was generally convincing.
She looks like Howard Stern, but he has more hair. Nonetheless, she doesn’t deserve to be sexually assaulted.
Makes for good money, if you can get it.
My Take is they are all pigs, there are no innocents here.
Who knows? This could also be a sign to the defense that it needed to stress something harder. Both sides can plumb this situation for information.
not vanilla pudding. Creamy, dark chocolate 90% cacao pudding.
Getting raped might impact that...
Classy tats, meth habit, and a few hormones ... Keith Richards.
or Lyle Lovett.
Is that Sigourney Weaver?
Man, I thought that was a picture of Howard Stern when I first saw it. If I were Cosby’s defense attorney I would advance the argument, “Who in their right mind would risk jail time for that?” (I know, that was mean.)
You could just as easily say there were ten votes to convict and ten white jurors. "It is indeed a puzzlement which ten voted to convict."
Looks like Howard Stern.
I was wondering why Colin Kaepernick’s picture was in this article. Never mind.
“Any doubt about the 2 jurors? Somehow I suspect the minority view was held by members of the minority.”
That has always been my thought as well.
This reeks of jury nullification like we saw in the OJ verdict.
Sad but true
Dip dappening and don’t know what’s happening.
No one should ever underestimate the power of “down for they peeps in da screet.”
Yes stewardess, I am fluent in new wave jive..
Howard Stern!
Well...all I can say is any women is taking a huge risk going to a mans home let alone getting in his bed....wiser women know where to draw lines in putting themselves in situations such as this.
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