"A mistrial is simply the justice system at work", O'Neill said, thanking jurors and urging them not to feel that they let the justice system down. He says it was consensual.
District Attorney Kevin Steele planned a late-morning news conference. Overtly and arrogantly collaborating with the District Attorney.
The jury was deadlocked and unable to make a unanimous verdict. The charges involve Cosby's sexual encounter with Andrea Constand, 44, at his suburban Philadelphia home. "Heinously and exploitively ambitious", it said.
Comedian D.L. Hughley tweeted: "A jury deliberated longer in the #Cosby Case!"
Much has been said and written about the sex scandal that has torpedoed Bill Cosby's legacy - so much so that it can be hard to recall how he reached the point of facing trial on three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault. "Mr. Cosby's power is back", announced his spokesperson Andrew Wyatt, triumphantly, outside the courtroom. Unlike others, Constand's case was not precluded by statutes of limitations. Cosby is on trial for sexual assault. "We will get to do it again." said Dolores Roiani, Constand's lawyer.
Prosecutors found themselves back to square one Saturday after the judge declared a mistrial following more than 52 hours of deliberations over six days.
The judge then declared a mistrial for the 79-year-old comedian.
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Steele said some good things came out of the trial, most significantly, that Constand was able to face Cosby in court and tell her story.
In addition to proving that Cosby assaulted them, Smolla said, they would have to establish that he said something about them beyond denying the allegations, such as calling them known liars or promiscuous.
Cosby said in a radio interview before the trial he hoped to resume his performing career after the Constand case was resolved.
The trial centered around Andrea Constand, the former director of operations for Temple University's women's basketball team, who claimed she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Cosby in January 2004 at his home near Philadelphia. This was the only case to result in criminal charges against the star. "She's entitled to a verdict in this case and the citizens of Montgomery County, where this crime occurred, are entitled to a verdict in this case and we will push forward to try to get that done". To many people-to an average group of people containing seven men and five women, say-the female accuser still seems implicitly untrustworthy, too.
Masten was among the Cosby accusers who responded to CNN requests for reaction to the mistrial. "No longer is a person embarrassed because they're pregnant without a husband". Cosby was facing up to 10 years for each of the counts against him.
"You don't know why they were deadlocked". "And the jury stuck to what they were asked to do and that is to review the evidence before them and there simply wasn't enough". However, the jurors still remained in what they called a "hopeless deadlock".
Cosby, now legally blind, will have to endure another lawsuit; as will Constand and witnesses like Kelly Johnson, who testified for the prosecution that Cosby drugged and raped her in an L.A. hotel room in the 1990s.
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