A lot of questions were raised about the verdict in the initial post last week. I think this article answers quite a few of them. iirc, The deposition he refers to was not public when the first prosecutor decided against bringing charges.
The part I found most interesting was how completely uninformed this juror, who apparently never reads or listens to the news, really was. I'm trying to decide if that's a good or a bad thing.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life...omics-own-words-led-his-conviction/563901002/
Bill Cosby juror tells 'Good Morning America' that Cosby's deposition led to conviction
Erin Jensen, USA TodayPublished 8:24 a.m. ET April 30, 2018 | Updated 10:05 a.m. ET April 30, 2018
For Juror No. 1 in Bill Cosby's retrial, it was the comedian-actor's own admission that he drugged women which helped the juror determine Cosby was guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault.
Harrison Snyder, who at 22 is admittedly "a little too young" to have been a fan of The Cosby Show when it originally aired in the '80s and early '90s, painted a portrait of the deliberation room on Good Morning AmericaMonday.
Snyder pinpointed Cosby's 2005 deposition as the evidence that pointed him towards guilty. In a 2005 deposition, Cosby acknowledged he acquired drugs, including the now-banned sedative quaaludes, to give to women he sought for sex. Cosby also acknowledged he repeatedly engaged in sexual relationships with young women he met as one of the most popular and powerful men in Hollywood.
"Cosby admitted to giving these quaaludes to women — young women, in order to have sex with them," Snyder told ABC News correspondent Lindsey Davis.
The jury in Bill Cosby's retrial found him guilty of aggravated assault Thursday after about 12 hours of deliberation. His conviction on all three counts means they determined beyond a reasonable doubt that the comedian molested Temple University staffer Andrea Constand during a visit to his Philadelphia-area home in 2004, despite the fact that she could not consent because the pills he gave her rendered her unconscious.
Snyder said he entered the deliberation room without a guilty verdict necessarily in mind, but was convinced after "hearing everyone's comments about certain pieces of evidence and going through the different counts."
Snyder said the charges against Cosby, whom he says he knew little about, did not feel like an "open-and-shut case."
More: A complete list of the 60 Bill Cosby accusers and their reactions to the guilty verdict
Snyder also denied knowing of the allegations prior to performing jury duty. "I don't watch the news ever. So, I didn't even know what he was on trial for."
Similarly, he says he was not influenced by the Me Too movement. "I really only found out about it after I got home then I looked online to see what everything was," he said. "I didn't even really know about the Me Too movement."
Snyder said he believed Constand's testimony, but feels he would've convicted Cosby even if the additional five women hadn't testified, which Judge Steven O'Neill allowed at the second trial.
"I don't think it really necessarily mattered that these other five women were here because he said it himself that he used these drugs for other women," he said.
Snyder said he doesn't have any doubts "at all" that the jury reached the right decision.
"Some have said that I made the right decision and some people have said that they still think that he's innocent," he said. "And I just tell them if you were there, you would say the same thing — you would say that he's guilty."
NBC's Morgan Radford read a statement on from jury members on Today Monday that aligned with Snyder's remarks. "Not once were race or the #MeToo movement ever discussed, nor did either factor in our decision," the statement read.
"We were asked to assess the credibility of Ms. Cosntand's account of what happened to her, and each one of us found her account credible and compelling."
The part I found most interesting was how completely uninformed this juror, who apparently never reads or listens to the news, really was. I'm trying to decide if that's a good or a bad thing.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life...omics-own-words-led-his-conviction/563901002/
Bill Cosby juror tells 'Good Morning America' that Cosby's deposition led to conviction
Erin Jensen, USA TodayPublished 8:24 a.m. ET April 30, 2018 | Updated 10:05 a.m. ET April 30, 2018
For Juror No. 1 in Bill Cosby's retrial, it was the comedian-actor's own admission that he drugged women which helped the juror determine Cosby was guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault.
Harrison Snyder, who at 22 is admittedly "a little too young" to have been a fan of The Cosby Show when it originally aired in the '80s and early '90s, painted a portrait of the deliberation room on Good Morning AmericaMonday.
Snyder pinpointed Cosby's 2005 deposition as the evidence that pointed him towards guilty. In a 2005 deposition, Cosby acknowledged he acquired drugs, including the now-banned sedative quaaludes, to give to women he sought for sex. Cosby also acknowledged he repeatedly engaged in sexual relationships with young women he met as one of the most popular and powerful men in Hollywood.
"Cosby admitted to giving these quaaludes to women — young women, in order to have sex with them," Snyder told ABC News correspondent Lindsey Davis.
The jury in Bill Cosby's retrial found him guilty of aggravated assault Thursday after about 12 hours of deliberation. His conviction on all three counts means they determined beyond a reasonable doubt that the comedian molested Temple University staffer Andrea Constand during a visit to his Philadelphia-area home in 2004, despite the fact that she could not consent because the pills he gave her rendered her unconscious.
Snyder said he entered the deliberation room without a guilty verdict necessarily in mind, but was convinced after "hearing everyone's comments about certain pieces of evidence and going through the different counts."
Snyder said the charges against Cosby, whom he says he knew little about, did not feel like an "open-and-shut case."
More: A complete list of the 60 Bill Cosby accusers and their reactions to the guilty verdict
Snyder also denied knowing of the allegations prior to performing jury duty. "I don't watch the news ever. So, I didn't even know what he was on trial for."
Similarly, he says he was not influenced by the Me Too movement. "I really only found out about it after I got home then I looked online to see what everything was," he said. "I didn't even really know about the Me Too movement."
Snyder said he believed Constand's testimony, but feels he would've convicted Cosby even if the additional five women hadn't testified, which Judge Steven O'Neill allowed at the second trial.
"I don't think it really necessarily mattered that these other five women were here because he said it himself that he used these drugs for other women," he said.
Snyder said he doesn't have any doubts "at all" that the jury reached the right decision.
"Some have said that I made the right decision and some people have said that they still think that he's innocent," he said. "And I just tell them if you were there, you would say the same thing — you would say that he's guilty."
NBC's Morgan Radford read a statement on from jury members on Today Monday that aligned with Snyder's remarks. "Not once were race or the #MeToo movement ever discussed, nor did either factor in our decision," the statement read.
"We were asked to assess the credibility of Ms. Cosntand's account of what happened to her, and each one of us found her account credible and compelling."
