Bill Cosby Sexual Assault Case Goes to Jury After Star Declines to Testify

Comedian could face 10 years in prison if convicted

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Bill Cosby’s fate is now in the hands of the jury.

On Monday, his defense team called a single witness before attorneys on both sides delivered closing arguments in the case, in which the comedian faces three counts of aggravated sexual assault for a 2004 encounter with former Temple University employee Andrea Constand.

Cosby himself did not testify on his behalf. Instead, his defense consisted of a roughly six-minute appearance by Cheltenham Township Police Department Sergeant Richard Schaffer, who led the 2005 investigation into allegations Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted Constand at the comic’s suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.

The 12 jurors, who were selected in Pittsburgh even though the trial took place outside Philadelphia in Norristown, Penn.,

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