NORRISTOWN – A US jury was locked in deliberations Wednesday in Invoice Cosby’s sexual assault retrial, tasked with deciding whether or not the disgraced megastar drugged and molested a younger girl at his residence 14 years in the past.
The frail 80-year-old might spend the remainder of his life behind bars if convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault towards Andrea Constand, then a Temple College worker, in 2004.
The sequestered Pennsylvania jury of seven males and 5 ladies crossed the seven-hour level in deliberations, recalling the decide and attorneys to courtroom thrice for questions and two additional clarifications.
They requested for the authorized definition of consent, solely to be informed that there wasn’t one, and for parts of Cosby’s 2006 deposition, and the complete testimony of the star defence witness, to be re-read.
After Choose Steven O’Neill introduced a sizzling dinner had been ordered for the jury, the panel determined to eat earlier than listening once more to the testimony in Norristown, a depressed suburb of Philadelphia.
They’ve already heard 12 days of testimony from round two dozen witnesses in what’s the first movie star trial of the #MeToo period that has seen a litany of highly effective males lose their jobs over sexual misconduct accusations.
The defence mounted an aggressive case, portraying their multi-millionaire shopper as a misguided married man hoodwinked right into a $3.38 million settlement by a con artist and pathological liar.
The prosecution painted Cosby as the actual “con,” who exploited his fame as “America’s Dad” to betray ladies’s belief by drugging and sexually assaulting them towards their will.
The case has without end tarnished the legacy of the actor as soon as adored by tens of millions for his function as lovable father and obstetrician Cliff Huxtable on the 1984-92 hit tv sequence “The Cosby Present.”
Cosby declined, once more, to testify in courtroom. His first trial resulted in a hung jury in June with the sequestered panel hopelessly deadlocked after six days of testimony and 52 hours of deliberations.
This time the jury has way more testimony to think about.
Lack of ability to consent
The once-pioneering African American actor claims he gave Constand, who’s now a therapeutic massage therapist in Toronto, an over-the-counter antihistamine to alleviate stress and that relations had been consensual.
Constand, who on the time was director of operations for ladies’s basketball at Temple, says she handed out after Cosby gave her three blue tablets, waking to search out him penetrating her vagina together with his fingers and making her masturbate his penis.
“I am assured that you’ll come again and inform that man that what he did to Andrea Constand that evening is towards the legislation,” prosecutor Kristen Feden informed jurors on Tuesday.
Cosby’s high-powered crew urged the jury to acquit the actor on all counts and save a “distinguished” aged man from “absolute spoil.”
“You are coping with a pathological liar, members of the jury, you might be,” stated defence legal professional Tom Mesereau.
Their star witness, former Temple College worker Margo Jackson, claimed that Constand spoke of desirous to arrange a star for money.
The prosecution introduced 5 different accusers to testify that Cosby was a serial predator, first successful their belief then intentionally drugging them to make them incapable of resisting.
Prosecutors initially declined to press expenses and Constand obtained $3.38 million in a civil settlement from Cosby in 2006.
The district legal professional reopened the case in 2015, arguing new proof had come to gentle, whereas an avalanche of girls got here ahead publicly to accuse Cosby of round 40 years of assault.
Round 60 ladies have accused the Emmy winner of being a serial predator, however Constand’s is the one case that occurred just lately sufficient to criminally prosecute.

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SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics reported a 52 p.c soar in its first-quarter web revenue Thursday, because of sturdy demand for reminiscence chips and its newest flagship smartphone.
Web revenue for the January to March interval hit 11.69 trillion gained (R134.33 billion), up from 7.68 trillion gained a 12 months earlier, the corporate stated in a regulatory submitting.
Working revenue was a file 15.64 trillion gained, in keeping with the estimate of 15.6 trillion gained advised in a preliminary steering report launched earlier this month.
“The semiconductor enterprise posted stable earnings — 11.55 trillion gained in working revenue on a 20.78 trillion gained income — on sturdy demand for reminiscence chips,” the corporate stated in an announcement.
Complete gross sales grew 19.eight p.c to 60.56 trillion gained and Samsung expects the reminiscence enterprise to take care of its sturdy efficiency within the second quarter.
However producing general earnings development throughout the corporate will probably be a problem as a result of weak spot within the show panel section and a decline in profitability within the cell enterprise within the face of rising competitors, it stated.

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