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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:58 AM Jun 2017

Bill Cosby jury deadlocked; ordered to keep deliberating by judge [View all]

Source: Yahoo News



CHRIS FRANCESCANI, LESLEY MESSER, MICHAEL ROTHMAN and JOI-MARIE MCKENZIE
Good Morning AmericaJune 15, 2017

The jury for Bill Cosby's criminal trial is deadlocked on a verdict and has been ordered by the judge to continue deliberations.

The jury in Cosby's trial has already deliberated for more than 30 hours over four days. The comedian is accused of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2014.

Cosby has been charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault, each of which carries a maximum sentence of ten years in prison with no minimum and a $25,000 fine. The charges stem from a 2004 sexual encounter with Constand.

Constand has claimed that Cosby drugged and molested her, but the former television star had said in a decade-old deposition that their relations were consensual and that he only gave her a Benadryl to help her relax.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/gma/bill-cosby-sexual-assault-trial-jury-deliberate-4th-131004962--abc-news-celebrities.html?soc_trk=gcm&soc_src=3b867fdc-9f47-11e5-8264-fa163e2c24a6&.tsrc=notification-brknews

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