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Wednesday 14 June 2017
Jury in Cosby sex assault case studies his deposition

some language in one of
the charges against him:
“without her knowledge.”
The jury asked about the
phrasing Tuesday morning,
but Judge Steven O’Neill
said he could not define it
for them.
The jury is considering three
counts of felony aggravat-
ed indecent assault. The
third count covers Cosby’s
alleged use of pills to impair
Constand before groping
her breast and genitals.
Outside the courthouse,
Constand’s lawyers blast-
ed the Cosby team Tues-
day for releasing a state-
ment from a woman who
had been blocked from
testifying at the trial.

Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Cosby’s spokesman, An-
Pa., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. drew Wyatt, read the
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) statement from longtime
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press The jury in the Bill Cosby Temple University official
MICHAEL R. SISAK NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — sexual assault case, weigh- Marguerite Jackson, who
ing charges that could said Constand told her of
send him to prison for the a plan to falsely accuse
rest of his life, drilled down a “high-profile person” of
Tuesday on what the TV sexual assault so she could
star said happened inside sue and get money.
his suburban Philadelphia A judge blocked Jackson
home and how he charac- from taking the stand, rul-
terized his relationship with ing it would be hearsay.
the accuser. Constand said on the wit-
With deliberations stretch- ness stand she did not
ing into the evening of know Jackson.
a second day, jurors re- Constand’s lawyer, Dolores
viewed more than a dozen Troiani, told reporters that
passages from a deposi- Jackson is “not telling the
tion Cosby gave more than truth” and faulted Wyatt
a decade ago. They heard for circulating Jackson’s
excerpts on a wide range statement while jurors were
of topics, from Cosby’s first deliberating.
meeting with Andrea Con- Jackson stood by her ac-
stand to the night in 2004 count, telling The Associ-
she says he drugged and ated Press in a phone inter-
violated her. view that Cosby’s lawyers
As he described reach- are “going to say whatev-
ing into Constand’s pants, er they need to say.”
Cosby testified, “I go into The jury, sequestered for
the area that is some- the duration of the trial and
where between permis- unaware of the back-and-
sion and rejection. I am not forth outside, reviewed the
stopped.” testimony of the police of-
Cosby is charged with ficer who took Constand’s
drugging and molesting initial report.
Constand, 44. His lawyer Jurors were also keenly fo-
has said they were lovers cused on what Cosby said
sharing a consensual sexu- about the pills he gave
al encounter. to Constand before their
The 79-year-old entertainer encounter, asking for the
did not take the stand at second time in delibera-
his trial, but prosecutors tions to revisit a portion of
used his deposition testi- the deposition in which the
mony — given in 2005 and comedian talked about
2006 as part of Constand’s giving Constand “three
civil suit against him — as
evidence. friends.”
As they pored over Cos- “She sat with her back to
by’s words, the jurors ap- the kitchen wall,” Cosby
peared to struggle with said.q