Jury selection complete for Cosby trial

Three days after it started, Bill Cosby’s jury selection is over.

Twelve jurors and six alternates chosen from Allegheny County will be bused on June 4 to Montgomery County, where they will remain sequestered for the length of the entertainer’s sex-assault trial — estimated at two to three weeks.

The final panel, completed Wednesday afternoon, includes six white men, four white women, one black man and one black woman. Six alternates — four white men, one black man and one black woman — also were seated.

Mr. Cosby is accused of aggravated indecent assault for allegedly drugging and molesting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his Cheltenham home in Montgomery County in 2004. He has called the encounter consensual.

ButMontgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said at the conclusion of jury selection that he was“confident” in the case he had.

“We are looking forward to getting the evidence in this case before a jury,” he said. “We’re past this nonsense about the optics and

Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette Bill Cosby pauses as he and his escorts thank the people of Allegheny County on Wednesday outside the County Courthouse.