us, cnn legal analyst. laura, we did not hear from bill cosby today, but we heard from these attorneys, we heard from this p.r. representative who has been with him for a long time. often after these trials, these high profile trials, it s a bit of a melee outside of the courtroom. have you seen or heard something like what you just saw and heard? reporter: allow me to pick my jaw up off my chest from the comments from camille cosby and also from his publicist. remember, the publicist, his role is to kind of be the person to, no matter what happens, to be the person to advocate and champion for bill cosby. you would expect his wife, who did not come notably through the entire case of the prosecution, but did come on the first and only day of the defense s case, make several statements that kind of demonized the judge in this case. the judge who was expected to hear the retrial in this case, and was accused of actually colluding somehow with the prosecution. obviously her comments was
get more information as to what happened inside the courtroom, the reactions of the jurors, how they look, also the reaction from bill cosby. we have this video is from friday. we saw bill cosby spoke last night. we will see if he speaks again. let s bring laura coates back in. your reaction? 53 hours of deliberation in this case and now a mistrial. i m not surprised that a mistrial resulted. remember, it was tlehe length o the deliberations but also the actual testimony that kim icame. this case largely began in the court of public opinion with dozens of women that came forward. ultimately when it came down to the court of law, only one other person besides andrea constand was allowed to similar situations against bill cosby. they did a dynamite job in trying to undermine the credibility of andrea constand. of most note in the testimony that she gave, there were a
we can never underestimate the blinding power of celebrity. but justice will come. i hope that the prosecution will try this case again and that the next time the court will permit more prior bad act witnesses to testify as the prosecution had requested for this trial. for the trial that just ended, the court only allowed one such prior bad act witness to testify and that was my client, kelley johnson, rather than the 13 such witnesses which the prosecution wanted to call. if the court allows more accusers to testify next time, it might make a difference.
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affirmative. the cosbys defense, they asked for a motion for mistrial and that was granted. then the judge made this comment to all the jurors. probably one of the more courageous acts, the selfless acts i have ever seen in the justice system. i feel bad for you all. he also said i m compelled at this stage to grant a motion for mistrial based off manifest necessity. so again, they have been deliberating for about 53 hours since they received this case on monday. they have been trying to come to some sort of agreement on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, assault without consent that includes, assault while the victim was unconscious, assault with the use of drugs, and they cannot agree on any of those counts. so again, they have declared a mistrial. we are still waiting for jean and lawrence to get outside of the courtroom. they are told they have to remain in there. you can see bill cosby, video of him, not sure if this is live, actually, but certainly we will