Thursday, June 15, 2017

Jury In Cosby Trial Deadlocked, Judge Instructs Them To Keep Deliberating

“We cannot come to a unanimous consensus on any of the counts,” the jury said in a note to Judge Steven O’Neill.

The jurors in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial said on Thursday they were deadlocked after more than 30 hours of deliberations, but the trial judge ordered them to resume their discussions.

“We cannot come to a unanimous consensus on any of the counts,” the jury said in a note to Judge Steven O’Neill in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Jurors began discussing the three counts of aggravated indecent assault late on Monday and worked 12-hour days on both Tuesday and Wednesday.

In response, O’Neill gave a standard instruction that the jurors should continue trying to reach a verdict without compromising any of their individual beliefs…

Source: Jury In Cosby Trial Deadlocked, Judge Instructs Them To Keep Deliberating | HuffPost


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