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Tuesday 20 June 2017

Cosby alternate juror ‘probably’ would have voted to convict

and the split on the vote median once known as
hasn’t been disclosed, “America’s Dad,” was
shrouding the case in mys- charged with three felony
tery. counts of aggravated in-
Prosecutors are fighting to decent assault stemming
keep the jurors’ identities from Andrea Constand’s al-
a secret, arguing in court legations that he drugged
documents Monday that and violated her at his sub-
releasing them would result urban Philadelphia home.
in a “publicity onslaught” He said the encounter was
and make picking a jury consensual.
for the second trial more It is not yet clear why jurors
difficult. Media organiza- could not reach a verdict,
tions including The Associ- or how close they came.
ated Press urged a judge “We get 12 people to
to release them, saying agree on sex assault cases
the public has an interest all the time, but this is not
in “confirming that the out- any case. It’s an old case,
come of the first trial was it’s a controversial case,
the result of an impartial it’s a case that involves
process.” questions of consent,” said
Pennsylvania law allows Loyola Law School profes-
Bill Cosby exits the Montgomery County Courthouse after a mistrial in his sexual assault case in the public release of jurors’ sor Laurie Levenson.
Norristown, Pa., Saturday, June 17, 2017. Cosby’s trial ended without a verdict after jurors failed to names, but judges have In a retrial, District Attorney
reach a unanimous decision. discretion to keep them a Kevin Steele could ask the
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
secret under certain condi- judge to allow testimony
By MARYCLAIRE DALE retry the 79-year-old star on “It was the craziest, eeriest tions.Judge Steven O’Neill, from more of Cosby’s 60
MICHAEL R. SISAK charges he drugged and bus ride I’ve ever taken,” who presided over the accusers, or to disclose to
Associated Press molested a woman in 2004. said McCloskey, 43. Cosby trial, will hold a hear- jurors that Constand is gay.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — As an alternate, Mike Mc- McCloskey posted his ju- ing Tuesday on the release That never came up in her
An alternate juror in Bill Closkey heard all the tes- ror’s badge on Facebook of the names. seven hours of testimony.
Cosby’s sexual assault case timony but didn’t partici- as proof of his role in the He advised jurors when the The defense had hoped,
said Monday he “prob- pate in deliberations. case. He did not imme- trial ended Saturday that if it did, to introduce evi-
ably” would have voted He told Pittsburgh radio sta- diately return a message they didn’t need to discuss dence she had previously
to convict and was “ridicu- tion WDVE that jurors did from The Associated Press the case.“It can never be dated a man.
lously sick” when he found not discuss the case on the on Monday. clearer that if you speak “The key to retrying a case
out the main jury couldn’t bus ride after the trial, main- Jurors deliberated more up, you could be chilling is to do it differently the
reach a verdict. taining “complete silence.” than 52 hours over six days the justice system in the second time because the
A mistrial was declared Sat- The trial took place outside before telling a judge they future if jurors are needed defense expects you to
urday after jurors said they Philadelphia, but the jury couldn’t break their dead- in this case,” O’Neill told do it the same way,” said
were hopelessly dead- came from the Pittsburgh lock. The jurors’ names them. Constand’s lawyer, Dolores
locked. Prosecutors plan to area. haven’t been made public Cosby, the actor and co- Troiani.q
Jury begins deliberations in Ohio officer’s murder retrial

By JANICE MORSE The nine whites and three Much of the retrial focused “stop the threat.” cause he had been taught
Associated Press blacks on the jury heard on a three-minute segment Prosecutor Stacey De- that the law says officers
CINCINNATI (AP) — Jurors testimony from more than of Tensing’s body camera Graffenreid showed frame are justified in using deadly
began deliberations Mon- 20 witnesses and saw video and dueling interpre- after frame of video in her force if they fear they are in
day in the murder retrial of more than 100 pieces of tations of what it shows. closing argument Monday danger of death or serious
a white University of Cin- evidence presented in Ray Tensing, 27, and attorney morning, asserting that the physical harm.
cinnati police officer who Tensing’s trial on murder Stewart Mathews main- car wasn’t moving until Mathews, in his summation,
fatally shot an unarmed and voluntary manslaugh- tain that DuBose stepped about one second before said prosecution experts
black motorist after pulling ter charges in the July 2015 on the accelerator and Tensing fired the fatal shot. failed to consider Tensing’s
him over for a missing front death of Sam DuBose. the vehicle was moving. Tensing wasn’t in reason- words on the audiotape
license plate. A jury of 10 whites and Tensing said his arm was able fear of his life when he that accompanies the vid-
The panel will reconvene two blacks hung on those trapped and he feared Du- made the decision to shoot eo.
Tuesday morning. The jurors charges in November af- Bose, 43, would use his car DuBose, she told jurors. “Why would anybody yell,
were sequestered Monday ter some 25 hours of delib- to kill him. She said Tensing repeated- ‘Stop, stop!’ at a car that
evening after about three erations, and the judge de- Mathews said he acted ly used “buzzwords” to try wasn’t moving?” Mathews
hours of deliberations. clared a mistrial. reasonably in trying to to justify the shooting be- asked.q