Bill Cosby to be retried in sexual assault case

US comedian Bill Cosby will be retried in November on charges he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago, after a Pennsylvania jury deadlocked on the question after deliberating over six days.

Cosby, who turns 80 in July, is accused of giving a women he met three pills that knocked her out before sexually assaulting her at his home near Philadelphia. Cosby did not testify at the trial, but in a deposition in the woman’s civil suit called the encounter consensual.

Accuser Andrea Constand testified she never gave the actor and comedian consent to engage in sex acts with her. Instead, she said, she considered him a mentor.

After the jury failed to reach a verdict in more than 52 hours of deliberations the judge declared a mistrial.

Defence lawyers Brian McMonagle and Angela Agrusa declined to comment on whether they would be aboard for the retrial.

Source: Philadelphia Tribune