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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Today is Day 4 of Bill Cosby’s retrial. The first trial ended in a hung jury, but this time things are different. Five new women are testifying, accusing Cosby of sexual assault. Vox’s Jen Kirby offers the latest, and Vox’s Laura McGann explains why Cosby’s retrial could be a game changer in the wake of #metoo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.0

Today is the fourth day of Bill Cosby's retrial in Norris town, Pennsylvania.

0:27.3

Women who say Bill Cosby knocked them out within toxicants and sexually abused them decades

0:32.4

ago are finally getting a chance to confront the entertainer.

0:36.2

The allegations stem from a 2004 incident involving Andrea Constant and she says in 2004

0:43.4

she went to Cosby's home, which is in a suburb of Philadelphia and he gave her pills,

0:49.7

drugter and sexually assaulted her.

0:52.2

Cosby faces three counts of aggravated, indecent assault.

0:55.5

Cosby maintains the relationship was consensual.

0:58.5

So last year in June, the first trial ended in a hung jury.

1:03.3

So they declared a mistrial.

1:05.4

The jury couldn't reach a verdict.

1:07.2

Jen Kirby's covering the case for Vox.

1:09.7

And so the prosecution immediately said we're going to retry this case and a year later

1:13.8

here we are.

1:14.8

There's a mountain of allegations against Bill Cosby, but why was the jury unable to come

1:19.6

to a guilty verdict?

1:20.6

You know, it's hard to say, but basically they just couldn't agree that Cosby was guilty.

1:25.7

A couple of reports said there were two jurors that were hung up, but it seems to be that

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