Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial jury approached the case’s decision on Friday, but due to their uncertainty on how to deal with some of the remaining issues in reaching the verdict, the judge We have decided to return on Monday to resume deliberations.
Before finishing the second day of deliberation at the Courthouse in Santa Monica, California, judge Craig D. Karlan said the jury had resolved most of the verdict sheet questions that had been asked to vote. However, there was no debate about how the jury voted for these questions. It also includes whether Cosby should pay her damages to Judy Hughes, who allegedly molested her at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles at the age of 16 in 1975.
One of the complications is the need to exempt one of the twelve jury trials who have completed two days of deliberation. Therefore, another jury will take a seat on the panel on Monday, and the jury will have to rethink most juries. problem.
“Unfortunately, we have to start over,” said Judge Carlan.
However, it is not clear whether including a new jury will have a substantial impact on the deliberations, as only nine of the twelve jury trials need to agree to the verdict.
Cosby, 84, denied having a sexual encounter with Hughes. He did not attend the trial and did not testify after exercising the rights of Article 5 of the Constitutional Amendment, but the jury remembers meeting Mr. Hughes in a videotape testimony. I heard that there is no such thing.
However, Hughes’s friend took two pictures of Cosby and Hughes together in the mansion, which are included in the evidence.
On Thursday, the jury was given a verdict sheet consisting of nine questions that had to be answered in turn to help them reach the verdict and determine damages.
They asked the judge to explain a number of questions, including questions dealing with whether Mr. Cosby was “motivated by an unnatural or unusual sexual interest in Mr. Hughes, a minor.”
In a 10-day testimony, the jury said that she and her friend met Mr. Cosby in a park in San Marino, California in 1975, where he was making the movie “Let’s Do It Again.” I heard his explanation. “
She and her friend Donna Samuelson testified that Mr. Cosby invited them to his tennis club and then to the house where he was staying.
In his testimony, Hughes, 64, explained in the bedroom of the mansion how Cosby forced her to have sexual intercourse. Cosby’s lawyer describes Hughes’s description as “a complete and complete fabrication.”
