Bill Cosby Jury Selection Trial Set to Begin This Week

Cosby has pleaded not guilty to 3 counts of aggravated indecent assault during a 2004 encounter at his home with Andrea Constand, an employee at Temple University where Cosby was a trustee who claims Cosby drugged and molested her.

Nearly 17 months after Mr. Cosby was charged with the aggravated indecent assault of Andrea Constand at his home in suburban Philadelphia in 2004, Judge Steven T. O’Neill and the lawyers in the case will start reviewing the first potential jurors, drawn from lists of registered voters and drivers in Allegheny County.

Mr. Cosby, 79, is due to be present for the jury selection in the Allegheny County Courthouse in downtown Pittsburgh.

The jury pool is being drawn here because of concerns raised by Mr. Cosby’s defense team that it would be hard to find open-minded jurors in Montgomery County, where Mr. Cosby has a home and where the trial is scheduled to start June 5 in Norristown.
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Filed Under: Celebrity News on Monday, 22 May 2017