“Why are we trying to make it something it’s not?”

“Why are we trying to make it something it’s not?”
As if to show that he, too, was disappointed in Mr. Cosby —
and perhaps offer the jury the catharsis of a public shaming — Mr. McMonagle pointed at his client and declared angrily, “You danced outside your marriage.” Turning to Mr. Cosby’s wife, Camille, who was making her only appearance at the trial and sitting in the front row, he added, “And you deserved better.”
Mr. Cosby did not testify in his own defense, avoiding being grilled by prosecutors about his own conduct, but he and his lawyers have insisted
that his encounters with Ms. Constand were part of an affair, not an assault.
“We will take a hard look at everything involved and then we will retry it,” Mr. Steele said, adding
that Ms. Constand “is entitled to a verdict in this case.”
Mr. Cosby, 79, and Ms. Constand, 44, reacted stoically to the news inside the Montgomery County Courthouse.
Mr. Steele had wanted to call a dozen other accusers as witnesses to demonstrate a pattern of behavior by Mr. Cosby,
but Judge O’Neill allowed just one to testify — Kelly Johnson, who said that Mr. Cosby had drugged and assaulted her in 1996.
Bill Cosby’s Sexual Assault Case Ends in a Mistrial -
By GRAHAM BOWLEY, RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and JON HURDLEJUNE 17, 2017
The judge in the sexual assault trial of Bill Cosby declared a mistrial Saturday after jurors reported being hopelessly deadlocked
after six days of deliberations, bringing an inconclusive end to this phase of one of the highest-profile cases in recent history.