Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case has ended in a mistrial.
The entertainer walked out of court a free man on Saturday, not because he was cleared of sexual assault charges, but because a jury decided that it could not reach a verdict on charges.
The actor is being accused of drugging and molesting a woman at his home outside Philadelphia in early 2004.
It took 52 hours for the jury of seven men and five women to decide that they could not decide the case. “We, the jury, are deadlocked on all counts,” said the note read by Judge Steven O’Neill on Saturday morning.
The Hollywood icon remains free on bail pending the new trial.
The actor was charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault, all focusing on the alleged assault of Andrea Constand, 44, who was then manager of the women’s basketball team at Temple University, where Cosby was a member of the board of trustees.
The criminal complaint was filed in December 2015, just days before Pennsylvania’s 12-year statute of limitations was due to expire.
