Bill Cosby Trial: Jurors Were Crying, Deeply Upset By Stalemate, Reports State

NORRISTOWN, PA — While the rest of the world awaited a verdict with bated breath, they had no idea what, precisely, was going on inside the Montgomery County Courthouse as jurors deliberated the former comedian's fate for 52 agonizing hours.

In a recent interview with one of the jurors, 21-year-old Bobby Dugan, he reveals an emotionally intense scene that left some of the jurors crying and others pacing, agitated, back and forth. At one point four of them were crying, he said, and others were spontaneously bursting into tears, reports state.

"I have had regret, I guess, when we came to the final deadlock decision, and it has kind of been eating in my mind like this could have all been done with," Dugan told 6ABC.

The case ended in a mistrial when the jury declared they were deadlocked and unable to move forward. Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele immediately announced that they would retry the case. A new trial for Cosby, accused of aggravated indecent assault of Andrea Constand, will be set in the next four months.

Dugan is among jurors who have consented to be interviewed after Judge Steven T. O'Neill ruled that their identities could be made public during a hearing last week.

Jurors were strictly prohibited by O'Neill from discussing their opinions on the case or the details of their arguments in the deliberation room, but they almost immediately started talking.

Dugan was among those jurors who was convinced of Cosby's guilt, citing his 2005 testimony in the civil suit with Constand, parts of which were read aloud to the court, CNN reports. He said that it ultimately came down to whose word could be trusted: Cosby's, or Constand's. There was not enough evidence to go on anything other than that, he reportedly said.

After being split evenly for some time, jurors ultimately voted 10-2 to convict Cosby of two of the counts he faced. They voted 11-1 to acquit him of the third count.

The 12 jurors and eight alternates were all from Allegheny County and remained sequestered from the public and their families for the duration of the trial in order to avoid prejudice.

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