A Pennsylvania judge has declared a sexual assault trial against comedian Bill Cosby void after the jury reported his inability to reach a verdict after 53 hours of deliberation. The Prosecutor’s Office has already announced its intention to restart the judicial process and several civil lawsuits are still against the actor. Some 60 women have accused Cosby of sexual assault, which has in practice meant the end of the long career of who He became known as ‘America’s Daddy’ for his role in ‘The Bill Cosby Show,’ the popular television comedy of the 1980s. The jurors deliberated for 53 hours on Cosby’s guilt or innocence but They failed to reach a unanimous verdict on the three counts of indecent assault, for which the Common Crimes Judge of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Steven O’Neill, has declared the process null.The victim of the assault tried was Andrea Constand, a Temple University worker. The events occurred in 2004 and his was the only case that ended in criminal proceedings largely because the rest of the accusations were too old. “Just because a verdict has not been reached does not mean that there will not be soon”, said the district attorney, Kevin Steele, at a press conference. This outcome represents a victory for Cosby, thus avoiding a possible sentence of 10 years in prison, but it is a severe blow to the dozens of women who claim to have suffered assaults Cosby sex. Several of them have been waiting all week for the verdict in court: “This is what happens.Juries are blocked when a prosecutor wants to put someone in prison for things that simply have not been raised in court, “argued attorney Angela Agrusa, representative of Cosby. Agrusa has appeared before the media with Cosby after her. The alleged victims, for their part, have lamented that “the blinding power of someone famous cannot be underestimated.” However, they are sure that “justice will come,” according to Gloria Allred, a lawyer who works for several of the women who report attacks by Cosby. Cosby says that all sexual acts were with mutual consent, but still faces at least four lawsuits civilians.
