He added: "While you should not hesitate to re-examine your views and change your opinions do not feel compelled to surrender your honest belief exclusively because of the views of your fellow jurors or for the objective of returning a verdict". "But each of you must decide by yourself". This is otherwise known as the "Spencer Charge" or "Allen Charge," an instruction provided by a judge to a jury reminding it to reach a definitive decision.
"Each of you has a duty to consult with one another and to deliberate with a view to reaching an agreement if it can be done without violence to your individual judgment", O'Neill told the jury.
Cosby is accused of drugging and molesting Constand in 2004.
Constand reported the incident to police in 2005, a year after the alleged incident.
Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill ignored the comments, and dismissed the panel just after 9:00p.m.
A 2005 police interview during which Cosby acknowledged giving her pills and fondling her, along with related testimony from the suburban Philadelphia detective who read it into the record.
"It went from being a joke to all of this calamity", said a man holding a sign that read "Free Mr. Cosby" who would only give his first name, Garvey.
MSNBC correspondent Ari Melber is shocked by the deadlock considering how many people have come forward as Cosby's victims. "The consent issue is good for Cosby - the deposition is not".
"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.
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If found partially guilty, the prosecution could try for a retrial; however, if the jury comes out and says definitively that Cosby isn't guilty of certain counts, his defense could block retrials on those counts, meaning that the prosecution would have to come up with a new angle.
What might lead to long deliberations?
While many in the courthouse have been speculating about the jury's progress, it has been couched under a thick veil of confidentiality - the jurors have been warned against talking to the media while judicial officials refused to tell The New York Times whether they are able to have a computer over the course of their sequester. "Peer pressure", he added, often is enough to make the holdouts agree with the rest.
It is unclear what is the central point of disagreement among the jurors. Constand says Cosby gave her pills that made her woozy, then violated her. As for the jury, they have been going over meticulous details of the #Case to try to come to a conclusions. Both of these possibilities could benefit the defense from certain perspectives.
And the spokesman took a shot at district attorney Kevin Steele, saying that the prosecutor had used the case as "catapult for his ambitions".
Cosby is charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault. "That's the question", said criminal lawyer Alan J. Tauber, who wasn't involved in the case.
"My gut feeling is that they have at least one or two jurors hung", said Cohen, who past year represented former-Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in a battery case. The jury continues to peruse over details of this case as they attempt to come to a conclusion on what happened in 2004. Cosby has denied every accusation and said his encounter with Constand was consensual.
"I may have been unclear in where we are right now", O'Neill said. "May the spirit of Christ and God fall upon you".
The jury's deadlock decision for others simply meant the case wasn't over yet.
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