On Thursday, the jury in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial reached a verdict in the case, announcing that they found Cosby guilty on all three counts of aggravated indecent assault.
The Associated Press reports:
Bill Cosby has been convicted of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
A jury outside Philadelphia convicted the “Cosby Show” star of three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Thursday. The guilty verdict came less than a year after another jury deadlocked on the charges.
In closing arguments, prosecutor Kristen Feden accused Cosby of being a con man who used his image on TV to gain women’s trust so he could drug them and sexually assault them.
“He is nothing like the image that he plays on TV,” Feden said in court on Tuesday. “In fact, he utilized that image and cloaked himself so that he was able to gain the trust, gain the confidence of these young women so he could strip them of their ability to say no, administering an intoxicant the same way he administered an intoxicant to Andrea Constand.”
“She is not the con,” Feden continued. “He is.”
Zach Haberman, a breaking news reporter for the New York Daily News, noted that Cosby, who was reportedly emotionless during the trial, did not react well to the convictions.
The jury, comprised of seven men and five women, began deliberations on Wednesday which lasted approximately 14 hours. Cosby could face up to 10 years in prison for each count.
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