The courtroom emptied quickly, but the two main players in this 11-day melodrama lingered.
Late Thursday morning, just after passing the 30-hour mark in deliberations, jurors formally announced for the first time that they were deadlocked — in a one-sentence note saying they could not reach a “unanimous consensus” on any of the counts.
The judge gave the standard order to keep trying, but they were ultimately unable to break the deadlock.
After the questioning was done, the entertainer sat back in his chair, holding to his chest a slender cane that has been with him inside the courtroom each day.
The jury filed out almost within arm’s reach of Andrea Constand, Cosby’s accuser.
A Pennsylvania judge declared a mistrial Saturday after a jury was deadlocked on sexual-assault charges against Bill Cosby, the comic legend whose legacy as a promoter of wholesome values has been tarnished by a years-long sex and drugging scandal.
As the mistrial was declared, Cosby sat at the defense table with his chin held high, a flat, blank look on his face.The jurors — who had been kept working for 12- and 13-hour days by O’Neill, the Montgomery County judge overseeing the case, since beginning their cloistered discussions Monday afternoon — asked to go back to the hotel early Tuesday.The next day, they expressed “concerns” to court officials, though the judge did not reveal the substance of their complaints.Across the courtroom, a small entourage of Cosby aides broke into wide smiles and clapped each other on the back.Amid the celebration, the 79-year-old comic sat by himself at his regular spot at the defense table.No one from his family was there to share the moment, and the members of his defense team and support staff had turned their attention elsewhere. Outside the courthouse, Cosby’s press spokesman thrust a fist in the air triumphantly as the comedian made his way down a ramp flanked by metal barricades and a leafy hedge in the rain.
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