Prosecutors found themselves back to square one Saturday after the judge declared a mistrial following more than 52 hours of deliberations over six days.
After claiming victory by default in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial, the comedian's attorney is arguing that his client - whom at least 60 women have accused of molestation, rape and harassment - is the real victim.
A judge has declared a mistrial in Bill Cosby's sexual assault case in Pennsylvania, but the comedian's civil lawyers are still fighting lawsuits against him by 10 women around the country.
He is accused of assaulting Andrea Constand without her consent, assaulting her when she was unconscious and assaulting her using drugs to substantially impair her ability to consent in his home outside of Philadelphia, in Elkins Park, in early 2004.
They 73-year-old, who's been married to Cosby since 1964, added that "historically, people have challenged injustices".
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele closed the prosecution's case on Monday by describing Cosby as a calculating sexual predator, who not only drugged and assaulted Constand in 2004, but also recast the attack as consensual and romantic.
"I personally can not thank Andrea Constand enough", she said.
During testimony, Constant said she became frozen after Cosby drugged her.
Read Camille Cosby's full statement about her husband's mistrial below.
Criminal law professor Jody Armour wonders if the bitter divide over social issues that is evident in American politics was at work in the jury room.
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Anyway, celebrities are reacting over Cosby - who has admitted to giving young women strong sedatives before, you know - escaping justice.
"The jurors used their power to speak, and Mr. Cosby's power is back", Wyatt said after leaving the courthouse.
'This is what happens - juries are stuck when a prosecutor seeks to put someone in prison for things that are simply not presented in the courtroom, ' said Angela Agrusa, one of Cosby's lawyers. And a federal judge dismissed a ninth accuser's case, finding her complaint inadequate.
Cosby broke barriers as the first black actor to star in a network show, "I Spy", in the 1960s and created the top-ranked "Cosby Show" two decades later, starring as kindly Dr. Cliff Huxtable.
"I was jolted awake, and I felt Mr. Cosby's hand groping my breasts under my shirt", she testified last week.
By Thursday morning, after almost 30 hours of discussions spanning three days, the jurors told O'Neill they were at a stalemate.
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.
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"We came here looking for an acquittal".
Although the district attorney has vowed to try the case again, Steele may have difficulty in winning an eventual conviction, according to former prosecutors and defense lawyers.
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