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They're trying to decide if he drugged and sexually assaulted andrea constand some 13 years ago. here's a look at the jury panel. seven men, five women. they've been deliberating for more than 30 hours. bill cosby faces up to 30 years if he's convicted. i've got areeva martin and mark geragos here. 30 hours. what can be the reason so far? >> because it's a hung jury. i said during jury selection that this was going to be a deadlocked jury. it does not surprise me in the least given the racial and gender composition in this case, i think it was -- and given the weakness of the prosecution's cas...

And two men and so it really cuts the deliberation time in half and here the jury said we are hopelessly deadlock, apparently there was a single juror who was unwilling to vote to convict, it's unclear whether the judge issued an alan charge, dynamite charge to jurors urging them to reconsider and if there's a long holdout, you should consider the fact that you're all by yourself and your colleagues on the jury are unpersuaded. that's called a dynamite charge to try to dislodge that single juror. it's unclear whether the judge actually gave that dynamite charge today. he might have simply been...

Phone, cnn legal analyst, danny cevallos was just seated and boris sanchez has been following this in north charleston. paul callan, let me begin with you because i know you were throng this from the beginning. what was the judge doing there? >> well, the judge was giving what is called in the federal system an allen charge, sometimes it's called the dynamite charge and it's a charge the judge always gives when a jury reports they're deadlocked. obviously after a lengthy controversial trial we don't want to have to start over again so this is the instruction -- go back out and make another ser...

Issues to grapple with. >> this was a five-week trial which is not terribly long, not terribly short for this kind of charge. if they've only been deliberating for a couple days -- i love when you say "allen charge." it's what they used to call dynamite charge. where they tried to dynamite those jurors back into action. it works, weirdly enough it works very often and then it doesn't at times as well. and the fear is when you force a jury back into a room to make a decision they may change their mind, they may go with a guilty verdict. they may just get fatigued and say i think the judge just ...

Come back into the courtroom and we will charge the case on that count. you may now retire for further deliberations and we will provide you a copy of this instruction. >> sure enough, the judge read what's known as a dynamite charge, an allen charge, it's a standard jury instruction in most jurisdictions of the wording approved by higher courts that really tries to get the jurors who are hung up on one or more counts to go back to the jury room and try to reach a consensus. you heard the judge reading that standard jury instruction. in case you're just now joining us, we have learned that the...