Jury dissects Cos testimony

THE JURY deciding Bill Cosby’s fate deliberated into a second evening Tuesday after focusing on the actor’s firsthand description of his interactions with accuser Andrea Constand.

In questions to Judge Steven O’Neill, the sequestered panel in the Philadelphia suburbs asked to review details of Constand’s first statements to police and for a definition of a phrase in the third count brought against Cosby.

That count alleges Cosby (photo) engaged in “penetration” of Constand after administering or employing “without the knowledge of the complainant” drugs or intoxicants that “substantially impaired” her ability to control her conduct or resist.

Jurors wanted more explanation of what constituted “without (her) knowledge.”

The Montgomery County, Pa., judge said he couldn’t provide any further definition.

The jury also zeroed in on more than a dozen passages from depositions Cosby gave in Constand’s 2005 civil lawsuit.

They listened carefully as Judge O’Neill reread their requested passages, including one in which the comedian creepily described groping at Constand’s midriff and reaching down toward her “question zone.”

“I go into the area that is somewhere between permission and rejection. I am not stopped,” Cosby said.

The jury of five women and seven men then heard for a second time how Cosby, 79, luridly described the January 2004 encounter at the center of his trial, the one Constand claims was a sexual assault.

Jurors also asked to revisit testimony in which Cosby referred to the pills he gave Constand as “three friends” that would help her “relax.”

Constand, 44, claims Cosby knew she had an aversion to pharmaceutical drugs and assured her the pills were “herbal.” She claims the pills caused her vision to blur, her speech to slur and her body to feel virtually paralyzed.