Cosby Civil Jury Must Start Their Deliberations Over

CBS News reports:

Judge Craig Karlan, who had promised one juror when she agreed to serve that she could leave after Friday for a prior commitment, decided over the objections of Cosby’s attorneys to accept and read the verdict on the questions the jury had answered.

But he had to change course when deputies required him to clear the courtroom because of no budget for deputies’ overtime. Karlan refused to require the departing juror, who had been chosen as foreperson, to return on Monday, so jurors will have to begin again with an alternate in her place.

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Jurors had begun deliberating on Thursday morning after a two-week trial. https://t.co/h9TtM2813Y

— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 18, 2022