Gloria Allred spoke out after a Pennsylvania judge declared a mistrial in Bill Cosby's sexual assault case.
The jurors, who were selected in Pittsburgh due to pretrial publicity in the Montgomery County region, listened to five days of testimony and deliberated for six.
While Bill Cosby celebrated Saturday's mistrial in the sexual assault trial involving former Temple University employee Andrea Constand, prosecutors are not ready to let the matter drop and have vowed a second trial.
Camille Cosby also said in the statement that she was grateful for the jurors, "who tenaciously fought to review the evidence; which is the rightful way to make a sound decision". Still, it's frustrating to see jurors succumb to ambiguity in this particular case when, to the general observer, so many women have indicted Cosby with revolting clarity in the court of public opinion.
Steele said some good things came out of the trial, most significantly, that Constand was able to face Cosby in court and tell her story. Cosby says the encounter was consensual.
According to the prosecution, if the jurors names are made public, they will be subjected to a "publicity onslaught" and picking a second jury will become well nigh impossible. She accused Judge Steven T. O'Neill, who oversaw the case, of "arrogantly" siding with the prosecution.
Criminal law professor Jody Armour wonders if the bitter divide over social issues that's evident in American politics was at work in the jury room.
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"The defamation case is this clever way of saying, If I say you raped me and you say it didn't happen, then you're defaming me by calling me a liar", he said. Guilty or not, this is the beginning for a lot of us.
"This is a case we know has been important for sexual-assault victims everywhere", Steele said.
Two women jurors who appeared to be in their 30s or 40s looked anguished when they announced the final deadlock, wiping away tears with tissues handed to them by a sympathetic young man sitting between them. Occasionally, we pretend that history is a linear force that propels us, inevitably, toward more comprehensive justice, and that grotesque contradictions - such as the mistrial in the Cosby case - are brief, unfortunate glitches in the overall clockwork of progress. "It's an old case, it's a controversial case, it's a case that involves questions of consent".
Smolla said the outcome of any civil case would depend on how jurors behave in terms of how seriously they take the case, how they relate to one another and how they deal with holdout jurors.
It's not just that it can take a long time for victims to come forward to report an attack, but that to some extent, public attitudes on rape and assault have shifted in recent years. "Do they want to save Cosby, or do what the first jury couldn't do, which was convict him?"
At least 10 women have pending civil claims against Cosby in lawsuits filed in California and MA. That testimony had been read to the jury earlier in the trial.
The statement, in which Camille Cosby called the district attorney "heinously and exploitively ambitions", also was released in its entirety on Twitter. Cosby remains a free man.
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