In their telling fifth question since deliberations began, the jurors Wednsday asked to have specific portions of Constand’s extensive testimony from last week read back to them. Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, center, and Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Kristen, left, enter the courtroom during jury deliberations in Bill Cosy's sexual assault trial at t...

(Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Pool Photo via AP). Reuters / Lucas JacksonActor-comedian Bill Cosby on his way to the deliberation of his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse

On Friday, O'Neill stated that he will allow the jury to take as much time as they want to carefully look through all the facts of the case to be able to resolve the deadlock that resulted during the deliberation last Thursday, June 15. Almost 24 hours after the jury in Bill Cosby's criminal trial told the judge that they were deadlocked, they are set to return to court for the fifth straight day to deliberate whether the comedian is guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. While admitting in an explosive unsealed deposition in Constand’s 2005 civil case that he had Quaaludes to give to women for sex before, and that he gave the then-Temple basketball staffer at least two Benadryl supposedly for stress, Cosby has always insisted the incident in question was consensual. "In my head I was trying to get my hands to move or my legs to move, but I was frozen and those [mental] messages didn't get there and I was very limp, so I wasn't able to fight him anyway," she testified last week. The jurors also asked the court to define a phrase in one of the charges, to define "reasonable doubt," and to rehear what a detective had testified to about Cosby's interview with police in 2005. After the jury reached a deadlock decision after deliberating for 52 straight hours, Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill asked the jurors to resume the deliberation for Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial on Saturday morning to finally reach a verdict. Resting their case in the June 5-starting trial less in than 10 minutes Monday, the defense decided not to call Cosby as witness in the only criminal case against the actor, even though more than 60 women have claimed he drugged and sexually assaulted them over the decades. The jurors — five women and seven men — were unable to come to a unanimous decision in a courtroom battle closely watched by the public as well as dozens of women who have accused Cosby of similar misconduct in the past. Defense attorneys have repeatedly asked for O’Neill to declare a mistrial based on the jury’s length of deliberations, but the judge has denied their request. Steele has four months to decide how he wants to pursue a new trial with a new jury for the current three felony charges of second-degree aggravated indecent assault or new ones.
The trial against comedian Bill Cosby at the Montgomery County Courthouse ends with a hung jury and the consequent declaration of a mistrial.