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Less affected by the publicity here in montgomery county, where cosbys home is and where the case happened, where the alleged crime happened. for all the talk now, of course he is not out of the woods. these charges are still hanging over him and the judge has said that the next trial could begin in as soon as 120 days, about four months from now. so people are being very cautious, perhaps, or perhaps should be more cautious about what theyre saying now that this is over. the prosecutor immediat...

Determine someones guilt or innocence. >> i want to play for you what a spokesperson for camille cosby told reporters in a prepared statement. here it is. >> how do i describe the district attorney? heinously and exploitively ambitious. how do i describe the judge? overtly arrogant and collaborating with the district attorney. how do i describe the counsels for the accusers? totally unethical. >> so to both of you, and ill go to you first, katy, how unusual is this time of reaction and what do y...

And that can be helpful to the defense in that the prosecution witnesses have already testified once. that said the hope of this prosecution this particular jury may have been id oiokaratic, somewhat of an outlier and 12 people selected next time around will have a different reaction to much the same evidence. whether or not more accusers are allowed to testify next time around. >> and manuel, i guess it paid off that bill cosby did not testify then if you were the defense. >> yeah, most defense...

Testify, as the prosecution had requested. >> reporter: now, prior bad act witnesses is essentially the other accusers who have come forward. the judge only let one other woman testify because it was thought that -- it was ruled that more accusers testifying would be prejudicial to bill cosby because they had nothing to do with this particular case, the events of this particular case, i should say, and that was a major, major decision in the pretrial run-up to the case. the district attorney wan...

Angeles. we continue to follow breaking news out of suburban philadelphia. after 52 hours of deliberations, the jury in the bill cosby criminal trial came back deadlocked on all counts. judge oneill asked ehuror individually the question do you agree that there is a hopeless deadlock that cannot be resolved by further deliberations. after each juror answered yes, the judge declared a mistrial. cosby was charged with three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault. he has of course repeatedly ...

>> how about celebrity, katie? how much of that factored into the way the jurors went? >> i think that contributed to the delay. i think it contributed to your 52-plus hours of deliberations. why? because hes bill cosby. for the longest time we grew up thinking he was the bill cosby from "the cosby show." myself included, looked at him, thought he was a role model. but the reality is you look at a 79-year-old man. hes almost completely blind now. he looks pretty busted up. and you look at him an...

Sexual assault, there are still contacts afterwards. because the human mind works in very strange ways in sexual assault cases. usually, women are in denial for a long time, they blame themselves. in andrea constands cases, some of the contacts were trying to get him to admit to what he did on phone calls that were recorded. so that makes sense. so its not the same as a robbery or a burglary. sexual assault is a complicated thing. and the prosecution, to their credit, brought an expert into the ...

Interpretation of the press conference that he does want to do this again. what would you do differently? because how do you know that the judge is going to allow those 12 voices to be heard, if this judge didnt allow it the first time around? >> well, we dont know. but what im saying is, i think it would be helpful to the jury if they could also hear from other accusers and the reason is, that when the prosecutor in this trial that just ended argued to the court, why he wanted to be able to cal...

Attorneys must prepare for that retrial. kelly: rick, i need to ask you a question. we also understand that camille cosby which is, of course, the comedians wife, also reacted to the verdict. what did she say today? >> reporter: well, she was only here for one day of the two week trial and deliberations, that was last friday, but she did release a statement in support of her husband, and andrew wyatts assistant read that statement on the courthouse steps. heres a portion of it. >> how do i descr...

When he said that in the courtroom, a gasp went up. remember, this case is 13 years old. it dates back to 2004, an incident at bill coffins home where 31-year-old employee at temple university, said she was at his home for dinner and she sexually assaulted her. so, again, theres been pressure from a lot of womens groups, a lot of victims of assault groups to keep this going, to push this through -- i hear some cheering in the background. some noise. im just trying to see what that is. there have...