Judge sets retrial date for Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case
After a mistrial in June in which a jury failed to come to a unanimous decision on whether or not to convict Bill Cosby on sexual assault charges, a retrial has been scheduled for November 6.
Pennsylvania Judge Steven O’Neill set the court date on Thursday.
Cosby’s sexual assault trial came a mistrial after the jury deadlocked. They could not come to a unanimous decision on whether Cosby was guilty of sexual assault in the case of Andrea Constand, who claimed that he drugged and assaulted her in 2004 at his mansion in Philadelphia. Cosby’s argument in his defense was that the sexual relationship between himself and Constand was consensual.
An unidentified juror told ABC News that, at some point during the trial, during which jurors deliberated for around 52 hours, jurors had voted 10-2 that Cosby was guilty, specifically for digitally penetrated Constand without obtaining her consent. The same 10-2 vote was also reached that he was guilty of giving her drugs or alcohol to impair her.
