Judge Steven O'Neill asked Cosby a series of questions created to make sure he was aware of his right to give evidence and was not pressured into deciding against it.
After calling a single witness, the defense in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial rested its case Monday.
Jurors in the comedian's sexual assault trial have heard a taped recording of one of Cosby's phone conversations in 2005 with Gianna Constand, the mother of his alleged victim, Andrea Constand.
Cosby told a radio interviewer weeks before the trial that he did not plan to testify in his defense.
Contsand testified that on the night in question, she went to Cosby's Cheltenham home and he offered her what she thought were herbal supplements. They said that Constand's initial statements to police were full of inconsistencies that undermine the truthfulness of her story.
Page Six reports that Camille Cosby was spotted smiling as she arrived with arms interlocked with her husband at the Montgomery County Courthouse in suburban Philadelphia.
Defense lawyers began grilling Constand on the stand late on Tuesday about several discrepancies in her initial account to police in 2005.
The mother of the main accuser in Bill Cosby's s*xual assault trial told the jury on Wednesday that the disgraced USA megastar admitted in a telephone conversation 12 years ago that "he was a sick man".
Bill Cosby arrived for the second week of his sexual assault trial accompanied by his wife Camille.
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His three charges of aggravated indecent assault each carry up to 10 years in prison. The lawyer's notes say the encounter occurred in 1990, while Johnson insists it was 1996, the year she left work and filed the claim.
For the jury, the deposition could be the closest it comes to hearing from Cosby himself, since he said recently that he did not intend to take the stand.
"Hopefully, you will have the last two words in this case, and I pray those words are not guilty", McMonagle said.
Cosby's wife of 53 years, Camille - in the courtroom for the first time in the six-day trial - was stoic during the defence argument. At the end of last week, a spokesman for Cosby hinted the star might testify.
Dozens of women have made similar accusations against Cosby stretching back to the 1960s, although only Ms Constand has accused him of a crime that allegedly took place recently enough to allow for prosecution. Most court observers doubt Cosby will testify.
The defense could call other witnesses to try to bolster its argument that Cosby had a consensual relationship with Constand, 35 years his junior.
Last month, Cosby said that he would not be taking the stand during the trial, though his publicist, Andrew Wyatt, implied while speaking to the press during a court break last week that it was a possibility.
Bill Cosby says he will not testify in his own defense at his sexual assault trial.
Before Monday, Camille had been absent from the highly-publicized trial. The legendary comic and actor is answering decades-old charges of reportedly drugging and sexually assaulting an appalling number of women.
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