Identity Of Jurors In Bill Cosby Case Could Be Made Public Tuesday

NORRISTOWN, PA — The identities of the jurors in the recent Bill Cosby mistrial could be made public after a special hearing on Tuesday afternoon, Judge Steven T. O'Neill announced on Monday.

Several media outlets petitioned the court for access to the names of the jurors, according to a Notice of Joinder filed by attorneys for ABC and CBS. O'Neil will listen to the case a 3 p.m. Tuesday at Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown.

O'Neill declared a mistrial in the Cosby case over the weekend after the jury deliberated for 52 hours and was unable to come up with a verdict.

The announcement on the hearing Tuesday comes just hours after media outlets across the country reported than an alternate juror said he probably would have voted Cosby "guilty" in the case. Mike McCloskey told NBC News that the jury let Constand down.

"You know, he (O'Neill) congratulated us, and commended us for the job we did. But I felt like we let Andrea down. I felt like we could have brought justice. But unfortunately being an alternate, I didn’t have a decision in that matter."

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The jury of seven men and five women was selected from Allegheny County, near Pittsburgh, after Cosby's attorneys argued that a local jury would be prejudiced against Cosby due to previous media coverage.

Cosby, 79, had been accused of aggravated indecent assault of Andrea Constand, 44, a former Temple University employee. He had faced 10 years in prison if convicted.

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