Bill Cosby secular trial jury must begin deliberations over

Bill Cosby secular trial jury must begin deliberations over

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — After set of two days of deliberations inside which they reached verdicts on almost all of the questions place earlier to them, jurors inside a secular trial who were deciding on reproductive abuse allegations opposed to Bill Cosby will have to begin from score on Monday.

By the extremity of the court of rules and regulations day Friday, the Los Angeles County jury had go nearer to accord on whether Cosby had sexually assaulted plaintiff Judy Huth at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 inside 1975, with every one other accompanied by whether Huth deserved some damages. In all they had answered eight of nine questions on their verdict form, all nevertheless one that asked whether Cosby acted inside a way that should need punitive damages.

Judge Craig Karlan, who had promised one juror when she agreed to work for that she could depart from following Friday for a earlier commitment, decided over the objections of Cosby's attorneys to receive with every one other accompanied by read the verdict on the questions the jury had answered. But he had to alter way when deputies at the Santa Monica Courthouse appeared with every one other accompanied by required him to understandable the courtroom. The courthouse has a required closure hour dated of 4:30 p.m. since of no indeed budget for deputies' overtime

Karlan refused to need the departing juror, who had been chosen while foreperson, to return on Monday, so jurors will have to starting on one occasion additional accompanied by an alternate inside her place.

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"I won't go spine on my word," Karlan said.

It was a bizarre extremity to a strange day of jury deliberations. It began accompanied by a note to the judge concerning what he called a "personality issue" in the centre of set of two of the jurors that was making their labour difficult.

After calling them to the courtroom with every one other accompanied by getting them to concur that every one juror would exist heard inside discussions, the jurors resumed, nevertheless had a steady flurry of questions on issues accompanied by their verdict form that the judge with every one other accompanied by attorneys had to talk over with every one other accompanied by answer. One question was on how to calculate damages.

After the lunch break, Cosby legal practitioner Jennifer Bonjean moved for a mistrial since of a photo taken by a subscriber of Cosby's team that showed a juror standing inside near proximity to a Cosby accuser who had been sitting inside the audience with every one other accompanied by watching the trial.

Karlan said the photo didn't demonstrate some discussion had happened, with every one other accompanied by fast dismissed the mistrial motion, getting assurances from the juror inside question, at that hour dated the entire jury, that no indeed one had discussed the instance accompanied by them.

The accuser, Los Angeles creator Lily Bernard, who has filed her own legal action opposed to Cosby inside New Jersey, denied speaking to some jurors.

"I never spoke to some juror, ever," Bernard told the judge from her seat inside the courtroom. "I would never do anything to jeopardize this case. I don't flat look at them."

Karlan fought to obtain past the hurdles with every one other accompanied by have jurors deliberate while lengthy while possible, with every one other accompanied by kept lawyers, reporters with every one other accompanied by court of rules and regulations staff inside the courtroom prepared to bolt while in a short time while a verdict was read, nevertheless it was fruitless inside the end.

Jurors had begun deliberating on Thursday earlier to noon following a two-week trial.

Cosby, 84, who was freed from prison when his Pennsylvania criminal declaration of guilt was thrown not here almost a year ago, did not attend. He denied some reproductive touch accompanied by Huth inside a clip from a 2015 video deposition shown to jurors. The denial has been repeated all over the trial by his spokesperson with every one other accompanied by his attorney.

In contentious closing arguments, Bonjean urged the jurors to look past the condition allegations opposed to Cosby with every one other accompanied by believe concerning only the trial evidence, which she said did not go nearer near to proving Huth's case.

Huth's attorney Nathan Goldberg told jurors Cosby had to exist held accountable for the injury he had done to his client.

The Associated Press does not normally name people who speak they have been sexually abused, unless they go nearer forward publicly, while Huth with every one other accompanied by Bernard every one have.

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Bill Cosby secular trial jury must begin deliberations over