After 30 hours of deliberations, the Montgomery County jury weighing the fate of entertainer Bill Cosby told a judge that it was deadlocked.
The jury tells the judge that "it can not come to a unanimous consensus on any of the counts".
"If after further deliberations you are still deadlocked on some or all of the charges, you should report that to me", O'Neill told jurors, who then resumed their deliberations.
Gomez said, "The longer a jury takes to reach a decision, the more there is the possibility that they will be a hung jury, or that they will compromise to come to their verdict".
Prosecutors say Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted Constand, a former Temple University employee, at his Pennsylvania home in January 2004.
Thursday morning the seemingly exhausted jury said that they are unable to find unanimous agreement on any of the three charges in the trial that rested on June 12.
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Sources who have been close with jurors told YC that they have been giving select jurors the silent treatment when leaving the courthouse and entering the hotel. "The jury foreman has informed me that you are deadlocked", O'Neill said.
Bill Cosby has arrived for the fourth day of jury deliberations in his sexual assault trial.
The once-beloved comedian has been accused of sexual abuse by approximately 60 women, but only Constand's allegations have led to criminal charges.
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More than a dozen excerpts from Cosby's deposition, including the "friends" comment and his acknowledgment that he'd gone "somewhere between permission and rejection" during a previous encounter with Constand.
"She sat with her back to the kitchen wall", Cosby said. Allison held the woman's hand as she tried to persuade her to change her mind and told the woman she would have had the same opinion if she had never been alone in a room with Cosby.
The supporters are holding signs like "Free Mr. Cosby Now".
Constand and other accusers say Cosby, the star of the 1980s hit TV comedy "The Cosby Show", often plied them with pills and alcohol before assaulting them, in a series of incidents over four decades.
If deliberations drag on, that's usually because either the panel is divided or, in complex cases, they are reviewing voluminous amounts of evidence.
Jury questions posed during Bill Cosby's sex assault trial.
Cosby's spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, says the impasse shows that jurors are "conflicted about the inconsistencies" in accuser Andrea Constand's account. Constand - an athletic, 6-foot-tall college basketball staffer - said they made her dazed and groggy, and unable to say no or fight back when Cosby went inside her trousers.
Bradford Cohen, a Florida criminal defense attorney, said lengthy deliberations are common during highly technical cases with numerous counts and defendants as well as copious amounts of evidence.
However, it's not known how the jury is split: whether more people are in favor of conviction or acquittal and how many are on each side. He says he gave her an over-over-the-counter cold and allergy medicine to help her relax and that the encounter was consensual.
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