New developments from USA Today show that as people wait to hear the verdict, they are wondering what the considerable delay is attributed to; Wednesday marks the third day of the jury’s contemplation. The 12 jurors have been attempting to reach a ruling in the Cosby trial since Monday evening and the duration of the trial lasted a mere six days. The prosecution presented an airtight case against Cosby, presenting a plethora of witnesses to the stand in addition to 2005 excerpts, while the defense only introduced Detective Schaffer to the stand and employed his testimony as a tool to cast doubt on Constand’s attestations.
As jurors work to reach a verdict, they made a series of requests. Jurors began by asking Judge O’Neill to repeat certain segments of Cosby’s statement to police officers, define the phrase “without her knowledge,” and requested for the detective who interviewed Constand to reiterate his testimony. Cosby refused to testify in his own trial and legal experts have asserted that this particular case falls into the “he said, she said” category, which is an apparent common fact when addressing sexual assault.
