Meanwhile, Bill Cosby's TV daughter, Keisha Knight Pulliam, who played Rudy on The Cosby Show, has spoken out about her decision to walk arm-in-arm with the embattled comic on the first day of the trial.
Late Wednesday afternoon, they asked to have Constand's testimony from the witness stand about the night of the alleged attack read back to them by the court reporter, and then returned to deliberations.
The jury has spent about 16 hours deliberating on both Monday and Tuesday, and they resumed their deliberations on Wednesday morning.
Dozens of other women have accused Cosby of some form of inappropriate sexual behavior, but none were viable due to the those allegations transpiring too long after the original crime in question. The third count covers Cosby's alleged use of pills to impair Constand before groping her breast and genitals. Cosby also declined to tell her what pills he had given Andrea Constand, but he did say they were from a prescription bottle, she testified. She reported him to human resources, but was told he would get a lecture but no further punishment because he was a "high performer", she wrote.
He said he was attracted to Ms. Constand the first time he met her and the two discussed her personal life, including a makeover and how her "butt" looked.
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Cosby is being sued in Los Angeles by Judy Huth, who accuses the comedian of forcing her to perform a sex act on him in a bedroom of the Playboy Mansion around 1974, when she was 15. The judge brought Cosby into court to make sure he'd approved of the mistrial requests, asking the comedian if he knew that a mistrial would mean he could be prosecuted again.
Prosecutors portrayed Constand as a fearless victim seeking justice, while Cosby's lawyers claimed she was a former lover who fabricated her account of the alleged assault.
Cosby has been charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault, each of which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine, but no minimum. He said Judge Steven O'Neill would not let the defense call Jackson to the witness stand. It never happened, but the suggestion was enough to dominate the headlines just as prosecutors were closing their case with Cosby's damaging deposition testimony. They called a second woman, Kelly Johnson, to testify he sexually assaulted her in 1996 and showed jurors his deposition testimony in which he admitted giving young women sedatives in the 1970s. Constand, who is gay, maintains that the sexual conduct was not consensual. Cosby's own testimony from that civil trial is being used in the current criminal trial.
MacGregor said it's likely that they are arguing over what was said in the courtroom - and that may go to Constand's credibility.
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele closed the prosecution's case on Monday by describing Cosby - who turns 80 next month - as a calculating sexual predator.
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