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 full context of the portion of Cosby's decade-old testimony in which he said he told Constand the pills he gave her, before their 2004 sexual encounter, were "friends".
Camille concluded her statement by thanking her husband's criminal defense team, publicists, supporters and the Cosby family.
At a news conference yesterday, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said prosecutors will "evaluate and review our case" and retry Cosby. Said Allred: "We can never underestimate the blinding power of celebrity, but justice will come". She claimed Cosby drugged and fondled her at his home.
Prosecutors had sought to have 13 other accusers testify in Constand's case, but the judge allowed only one, finding that more would unfairly prejudice the jury.
The panel also asked to hear excerpts from Cosby's deposition in 2005 in which he says he gave the sedative Quaaludes to a woman in Las Vegas in 1976 before having sex with her, and that he used them with other women. Round 2 may be just around the corner.
"Prosecuting a case this old is inherently risky as jurors need to have a comfort level that justice is reasonably speedy and has not been delayed for improper reasons", says Dennis McAndrews, a former Pennsylvania prosecutor who has been following the case.
Numerous dozens of women who say Cosby abused them will never have their day in court because the alleged crimes happened outside the statute of limitations.
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Cosby remains free on one-million-dollar bail.
"I'm going to allow this to go as long as this jury wishes to continue to deliberate", O'Neill said Friday.
Duquesne University law professor Wes Oliver said that if Cosby had been convicted, those allegations could have compelled Judge Steven O'Neill to sentence him closer to 10 years. Before the trial, a probable cause affidavit laid out her version of events, which she says occurred between mid-January and mid-February of 2004.
What became clear were the graphic details of Cosby's alleged conduct - drugging and then forcing his victims to form similar, specific and loathsome acts while they were in a state of paralysis.
At the time of the incident, she was the director of women's basketball at Temple University, where Mr Cosby was on the board of trustees. Cosby declined to testify in his own defense, and his attorneys called only one witness. "Heinously and exploitatively ambitious", Camille, 73, said in a written statement, which was read aloud outside the courthouse by a member of Bill's PR firm.
Constand is ready to go to trial again, said her lawyer, Dolores Troiani. Overtly arrogant, collaborating with the district attorney.
"My opinion continues to be that Ms. Constand was probably the victim of a sexual assault", said Castor, whom Constand is suing for defamation. He had earlier made the Cosby case an election issue. She sued Cosby in a civil suit and settled for an undisclosed amount in 2006.
When Cosby left the court on Friday, a day before the mistrial was announced, he said. Prosecutors have said they plan to re-try the case.
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