Jury deadlocks in Bill Cosby's criminal trial

Throughout the dozens of sexual assault accusations Bill Cosby has faced over the years, Camille Cosby has remained steadfast in support of her husband. He also dismissed the district attorney's pledge to retry the case. For criminal cases, the jury must be unanimous beyond a reasonable doubt in their decision. "Overtly arrogant, collaborating with the district attorney", said her statement, which was read by Wyatt and tweeted by her husband.

Deliberations resume Saturday. Jurors have been working for 52 hours since getting the case on Monday.

Constand did not appear at the news conference.

Cosby's wife of 53 years, Camille, released a seemingly hostile statement read by their publicist, Andrew Wyatt, following the six-day trial.

More than 40 women have said that Cosby sexually assaulted them, though this case was the first to be tried in criminal court.

Montgomery County (Pa.) prosecutor Kevin Steele immediately announced that Cosby will face a retrial.

Cosby was charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault - penetration with lack of consent, penetration while unconscious, and penetration after administering an intoxicant without the subject's knowledge. Constand says that Cosby had served as a mentor figure for her but took advantage of their relationship.

Constand, now 44, initially went to police about a year after she said Cosby assaulted her, but a prosecutor declared her case too weak to bring charges.

Cosby was accused of drugging and sexually violating Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.

Allred, who represents 33 women in civil claims against the former Cosby Show star, spoke out outside the Norristown, Pennsylvania courthouse where a judge on Saturday declared the mistrial. She testified that the assault occurred in a visit to the home of Cosby, who was a Temple trustee, when she was 30 and he was 66.

Constand alleges that Cosby made sexual advances on multiple occasions and that she turned them down.

But in the end, they simply could not unanimously decide whether the comedian was guilty of sexual assault in 2004.

The jury deliberated for 6 days but as CNN reports, the jurors - five women and seven men - were unable to come to a unanimous decision in a courtroom battle closely watched by dozens of women who have accused Cosby of similar misconduct in the past. In that case, prosecutors would have the option of seeking to retry Cosby before a new jury. "I'm going to allow this to go as long as this jury wishes to continue to deliberate", Judge O'Neill said Friday.

"We are confident that these proceedings have given a voice to the many victims who felt powerless and silenced", they added.

Judge Steven O'Neill refused, saying there's no precedent to halt the jury's work. As such, Cosby was arrested for aggravated indecent assault in December 2015.

He walks away from court a free man, but the prosecution has already said they are pursuing a fresh trial.

As we await what happens next, the question now is: can the world still appreciate Bill Cosby, the trailblazing entertainer once fondly known as "America's Dad?"

On Friday, the jury asked to review multiple pieces of evidence, including Cosby's decade-old deposition testimony about quaaludes.

"We came here looking for an acquittal, but like that Rolling Stones song says, 'You don't always get what you want, sometimes you get what you need, '" defense lawyer Brian McMonagle told reporters. He maintains it was consensual.