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Sexual assault and harassment has changed a lot since the first trial. how much that impacted the jury in their deliberations, i dont know, theyre human beings. i know they were ad monished not to allow what was going on in the culture and socially to interfere with their deliberations in the case, but their human beings. >> your accusations of bill cosby stem from an event in 1979, so were talking obviously decades here. there has been a real sea change just in the last few months but prior to ...

>> one word. >> so you just been watching the press conference there with montgomery county district attorney kevin steele a. couple of things that came up, the deposition of 2005 with bill cosby and related to andrea constands allegations back then and the other talk was about the five other accusers who were allowed to testify. what do you think was more powerful here for that jury, bill cosbys own words being read to them where he talked about quaaludes and sex and drugs and alcohol? or was i...

80-year-old immediately behind bars saying he was a flight risk because he owned a private plane, cosby shouted he doesnt have a plane, you asshole. meanwhile outside his accusers say justice was finally serve. >> it is also a victory for womanhood and a victory for all sexual assault survivors female and male. >> we are not shutting up and were not going away. >> reporter: we are being told that bill cosby is spending time tonight with his wife cumill. his sentencing should be at this courthous...

Cross-examination but they persisted and prevailed. it is a great day for and all of the accusers and the me too movement, for women because women have been believed. in this case, ive always said, wolf, how many women will it take before one woman is believed against the denials of a rich, power, famous man? now we know the answer. in a criminal case in a court of law right here in montgomery county the answer was it took six women but the jury found the truth and the truth is that bill cosby w...

Him down. and the judge sided with bill cosby, you give me facts hes a floot r flight risk, i dont see it. >> i watched the jury file in. not one of them looked at andrea constand. that can be a sign of in favor for the defense. and then the verdict, guilty, guilty, guilty. at that point bill cosby made no audible reaction. he was just staring at the table in front of him, head lowered a little bit. andrea constand, all the prosecution team, no visible or audible response. it was a quiet courtro...

Between the attorneys representing the accusers and tom meszaros. you heard gloria allred take that direct swipe at him in her statement. >> certainly. and look at the stark contrast between the way tom meszaros already at his vehicle was called back by representative bill cosby to then come in front. a very different presser was given by the attorney for bill cosby. but youre right. the idea there has been animosity and an adversarial relationship is also reflebcted in the court of public opini...

Day, gloria? >> wolf, let me just say im very proud of andrea constand. very proud of all of the 33 accusers that i represent. those who spoke out and some who didnt speak out against mr. cosby but did provide evidence and information to the prosecution. proud of all of them including the three who testified prior bad act witnesses in this case. all of whom were vigorously attacked by the defense with smear tactics, with ugly innuendo, with attacks on their motives and their character which were...

Comedian assaulted andrea constand in 2004. >> i am so happy today that i can say although justice was delayed it was not denied. it took a lot of courage for her to come pack and to do this. >> reporter: cosby was on trial for drugging and sex well assaulting constand at his home in pennsylvania in 2004. cosby who became known as americas dad first faced charges for the attack in 2015 after a deposition from constands 2005 civil case against cosby was unsealed in which he admitted to giving q q...

Voir diring those jury members would have to say is there any reason you could not follow the law, not just #metoo. why is this appellate fodder? most of the time, in every instance youd never want to have a case where youre telling somebody i think youre a criminal because youve done other things, if you did something else, youd probably do this as well. we want people to be convicted or tried or indicted on what theyve actually done. >> jean, walk us through what you saw and what you heard. >>...

Have happened. >> so one last point, which is i said before the verdict how many women does it take for one woman to be believed over the denial of one rich, powerful, famous man? and the answer in this case is four. all right. thank you so much and well see you later. >> there she is, gloria allred. she represented some of the women, some of the accusers of bill cosby. bill cosby has been convicted of all three counts of aggravated, indecent assault. mark geragos, let me get your reaction of wh...