Prosecutors vow to re-try Bill Cosby after sex case ends in mistrial

COMEDIAN BILL Cosby declared a Father’s Day victory after a jury deliberated 52 hours without reaching a verdict on claims he drugged and molested a woman in 2004.

No one from Cosby’s real or TV families was in court on Saturday when the case ended in a mistrial.

Instead, Cosby, known as “America’s Dad” for his TV role as paternal Dr Cliff Huxtable, emerged from the courthouse with his publicity team.

District attorney Kevin Steele vowed to try Cosby, 79, a second time, saying his accuser Andrea Constand supported the decision. “She’s entitled to a verdict in this case,” he said.

By sowing doubt among one or more jurors, Cosby’s lawyers managed to overcome two years of unrelenting bad publicity for their client.

Ms Constand, now 44, told jurors Cosby gave her pills that made her woozy and then molested her as she lay paralysed on a couch, unable to tell him to stop. The jury failed to reach a unanimous decision on any of the three counts against the comedian, ending the trial without a verdict after a long week of deliberations. Cosby’s team immediately went on the attack.

Camille Cosby, the entertainer’s wife of 53 years, slammed prosecutors for bringing the case to court, calling Mr Steele “heinously and exploitively ambitious”.