Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial jury did not reach a verdict on Monday, despite the case judge’s indication that the jury was approaching the case’s decision at the end of last week’s deliberations. The deliberation was held on the third day.
On Friday, judge Craig D. Carlan said a jury in Santa Monica, California, had resolved most of the verdict sheet questions they were asked to vote for. However, due to their uncertainties surrounding some final issues, he called the jury on Monday and resumed deliberations.
Judge Carlan explained his actions on Monday, saying, “I feel it is not right to rush the verdict when there are so many crises for both sides.”
One of the twelve juries who sat in the first two days of the deliberation, the same jury who supervised, had to be exempt from the deliberation on Monday. As a result, another jury was instructed to take a seat on the panel and reconsider the central issue of the case.
It was not clear how the inclusion of a new jury would affect the deliberations. Nine of the twelve jury trials must agree to the verdict, and they use a verdict sheet with nine questions to guide the deliberation and determine damages.
A jury trial on Monday reported that Mr. Cosby’s whistleblower, Judy Hughes, had been assaulted within five years of discovering the psychological distress caused by it, as required by California law. I asked for explanations on some points, such as whether or not. .. The judge said the jury should apply the same proof criteria, which is the predominance of evidence, in deciding this issue, as well as all civil trial issues.
This is the first civil case in which Mr. Cosby has been accused of being tried for sexual assault. Hughes testified that Cosby had molested her in 1975 in her bedroom in the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles when she was 16 years old.
In his testimony, Hughes, 64, explained how Cosby tried to put his hand on his pants and then forced her to have sexual intercourse.
Cosby’s lawyer described Hughes’s description as a “complete and complete fabrication” and wondered why she spent hours in the mansion after she described it as assault.
The jury also asked the Playboy Mansion to consider testimony by another woman, Dona Samuelson, who accompanied Mr. Hughes.
Samuelson told the jury that Hughes was crying and angry when he explained his encounter with Cosby shortly after she described her as assault. She said she persuaded Mr. Hughes to stay in her mansion because they talked in the car for about 30 minutes and thought she would settle down after spending the night there.
Cosby, 84, denied having a sexual encounter with Hughes. He has not attended the trial and has not testified after exercising the rights of Article 5 of the Constitutional Amendment. However, he was videotaped by the jury and heard him say he didn’t remember seeing Mr. Hughes.
However, Samuelson took two pictures of Cosby and Hughes together in the mansion, which are included in the evidence.
In a 10-day testimony, the jury heard Hughes say he met Cosby for the first time in a park in San Marino, California. There he was filming the scene for the movie “Let’s Do”. “It Again” in 1975.
She and Ms. Samuelson invited Mr. Cosby to his tennis club and then to the house where he was staying, where he gave them alcohol and invited them to the Playboy Mansion by car. I testified that I did.
