Jurors sent a note to O'Neill saying that they "cannot come to a unanimous consensus on any of the counts", but O'Neill told them to try again. In court, O'Neill read a charge to the jury: "Each of you has a duty to consult with one another and to deliberate with a view to reaching an agreement".
They have reported to the judge that they are deadlocked, but the judge has ordered further deliberations.
The 12 jurors - comprising seven men and five women - spent 30 hours talking in total before telling the judge they couldn't reach a verdict. The charge is also known as the Allen Charge in other states.
Thursday morning the jury on Bill Cosby's sexual-assault trial declared that it was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict.
Cosby himself has appeared nearly serene, exhibiting no outward sign of fatigue, frustration or impatience.
Jurors are deliberating on three counts of aggravated indecent assault against the comedian. If convicted of all three charges, Cosby could be sentenced to up to 10 years on each count.
Prosecutors, meanwhile, used Constand's testimony as well as the words of a second accuser, Kelly Johnson, to portray Cosby as a serial predator.
Both the prosecution and the defense teams have ended their cases this past Friday and Monday, respectively.
Legal experts said the trial fits the "he said, she said" arguments so common to sexual offense cases. Bill Cosby enters the courtroom during his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, June 14, 2017. She was anxious the jury would stay deadlocked. She tweeted a video that shows her shooting a mini-basketball into a net to the tune of "Sweet Georgia Brown", the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters. "I have no recollection, until some point later", Constand had testified.
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"A quick verdict will not be a good thing for Cosby", says Stuart Slotnick, a NY criminal defense attorney who has been following the case for more than two years.
"Put them down, they're your friends. And now people are speaking out", she told AFP. "You have taken your task so seriously". If nothing else, she says the case has revived debate about rape and consent. She believes he gave her something stronger than Benadryl on the night she says he molested her. "And so I continue and I go into the area that is somewhere between permission and rejection". During the statement, Cosby admitted to giving his accuser, Andrea Constand, blue pills before they engaged in what he described as "heavy petting". Cosby's lawyers maintain Constand was a willing sexual partner.
The first prosecutor to review the case in 2005 passed on it. "Mr. Cosby should not be here today".
Constand denies there was any romance between them and told jurors she had rebuffed his advances before the assault.
But she said the hotel room meeting was not romantic, and explained that she made those phone calls in her job responsibility at Temple. I pray for her. "It was a lot of confusion putting a lot of dates together".
On the night of the assault, Constand said she had sought Cosby's guidance about a possible career change.
The incident allegedly took place when Constand visited Cosby's home outside of Philadelphia, in Elkins Park, Montgomery County. But in most of those cases, the statute of limitation had expired by the time the women came forward.
In July 2015, a judge unsealed Cosby's deposition in that 2006 civil lawsuit. Cosby, who is legally blind and carries a cane, has arrived in court each day with someone from the world of entertainment.
Q: What factors would play into launching a retrial? "Ephesians 6", she added, simply, before walking away.
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