{"id":329131,"date":"2017-06-17T14:59:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T14:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=329131"},"modified":"2017-06-17T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T14:59:41","slug":"bill-cosby-case-judge-declares-mistrial-after-jury-deadlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=329131","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cosby case: Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A judge has declared a mistrial in the Bill Cosby sex assault case, after the jury was deadlocked for a second time.<\/p>\n<p>The seven men and five women were unable to reach a unanimous decision, following more than 50 hours of deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cosby, 79, is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. His lawyers had argued the sex was consensual.<\/p>\n<p>The US comedian could face new proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>For now, he walks way from court a free man, but the prosecution has already said they are pursuing a fresh trial.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\">\n<div class=\"player-with-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-placeholder player-with-placeholder__image narrative-video-placeholder\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p0565n2h.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Mr Cosby could have faced up to a decade in prison if found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of women say he assaulted them, but statutes of limitation rules mean he was allowed to be tried for Ms Constand&#8217;s allegation only.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the decision, the Pennsylvania judge reminded Mr Cosby that he remains charged and on bail, despite the mistrial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has declared a mistrial in the Bill Cosby sex assault case, after the jury was deadlocked for a second time. The seven men and five women were unable to reach a unanimous decision, following more than 50 hours of deliberations. Mr Cosby, 79, is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[8117,3],"class_list":["post-329131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-bill-cosby","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}