PENNSYLVANIA
CBS 19
Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY
April 23, 2018
The defense in Bill Cosby’s sexual-assault retrial rested its case Monday. With the two sides set to give closing arguments Tuesday morning, it’s possible the jury could be deliberating by lunchtime.
As was the case in the first trial, the comedian opted not to take the stand in his own defense; that trial, ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a verdict after five days of deliberation after just over a week of testimony. The retrial, which is in its 11th day, has already outlasted the original.
Cosby, 80, is charged with drugging and molesting Andrea Constand, a former staffer with the women’s basketball team at Temple University, at his house near Philadelphia in 2004. He says it was consensual.
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