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Chasing Cosby

Nobody is Above the Law | 6

Chasing Cosby

Los Angeles Times

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

With the retrial full speed ahead, there’s tension in the courtroom. Survivors take to the stand to confront Cosby face to face. Then, after more than a decade, we arrive at the moment of truth.

Transcript

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Chasing Cosby contains descriptions of violence, sexual content, and language that is not suitable for every audience. Please be advised.

0:10.0

It's April 26, 2018, and it's a pleasant sunny day in Pennsylvania. But at the Montgomery County Courthouse, in the criminal case against Bill Cosby, there's tension in the air.

0:22.0

All the evidence has been presented, and the jury is trying to decide if America's dad

0:26.7

drugged and assaulted Andrea Constand in 2004.

0:31.2

63 women have accused the 80-year-old comedian of similar crimes.

0:36.0

After deliberating for 14 hours, the jury reaches a verdict.

0:40.2

Here's the foreperson, Cheryl Carmel.

0:42.7

We're getting lined up, and that's kind of when it started hitting me that in just a few

0:46.7

minutes we would be delivering a verdict, and that was kind of a heavy emotional

0:50.9

time frame for me at that point.

0:53.2

If he's found guilty on all three counts

0:54.9

of aggravated indecent assault, Cosby could spend the rest of his life behind bars. Here's juror

1:01.2

Diane Selza. We were all a little bit nervous. We knew the focus that was going to be on us. We knew

1:08.6

the magnitude of this decision. There was a sense of relief as well. We knew

1:13.6

we were delivering the proper verdict. The courtroom is silent as the jurors file in to take

1:19.1

their seats. As we're going into the courtroom, I'm feeling the nerves. And so we get in there,

1:24.9

someone from the court staff takes the verdict sheet from me, takes it to

1:28.5

the judge, hands it back to the court staff, and then asks me as the F-4 person to stand up.

1:36.8

From the Los Angeles Times, I'm Nikki Wisensie Egan, and this is Chasing Cosby. Part 6. Nobody is

1:44.0

above the law.

1:47.0

Before we get to that verdict,

1:49.0

let's check back in with Andrea Constan.

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