The atmosphere in the jury room in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial was "tense -- very, very tense" during the 52 hours of deliberations before a hung jury was declared and the jurors had trouble coming to a consensus on the charges, a former juror told CBS News. 
 
 CBS News' Nicole Sganga and Wendy Krantz spoke to a male juror on the condition of anonymity. A long-time resident of the Philadelphia area, the juror is married and a former Marine. He said prosecutors "really screwed it up when it came to the charges" against Cosby. 
 
 Cosby was charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault, each one punishable by up to 10 years behind bars. The juror said they were split on all three charges, but the vote count on each charge changed. 
 
 "There were lots of tears. Lots of emotions," the juror said about the deliberations. 
 
 The juror emphasized the jurors had a lot of problems with "the way [the charges] were written." 
 
 The juror said they frequently debated the "meaning of words" in the charges. For example, he said Cosby "did it. He admits that. But was he reckless?" Additionally, the juror said that victim Andrea Constand was "impaired, but severely?" 
 
 The juror said the words printed on the charges were "unreasonable doubt," which the jury debated "back and forth half a day on that." The jurors went back to the judge on Friday to clarify what "unreasonable doubt" meant, but the juror said he still doesn't know what it means. 
 
 The jury was comprised of seven men and five women, and two jurors were African American. The juror told CBS News that they were not split down gender lines or age lines. He said the jurors' ages ranged from 21 to 86. 
 
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 Cosby was accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Constand in 2004 in his suburban Philadelphia home. Some 60 women have come forward to say Cosby sexually violated them, all but destroying his nice-guy image, but the statute of limitations for prosecution had run out in nearly every case. Constand's case is the only one in which Cosby has been charged. 
 
 The juror noted that there were "40 to 60 women" who came forward with allegations against Cosby. "I don't think he ever actually went on to rape any of them." 
 
 "I don't understand if you're assaulted why you wait one year or 40 years," he said. 
 
 Constand sued Cosby after prosecutors in 2005 declined to press charges. Cosby testified over a decade ago as part of that lawsuit, eventually settling with her for an undisclosed sum. Cosby didn't testify at the six-day trial. But jurors still heard plenty from him as prosecutors read them excerpts from his 2005 police statement and civil deposition. 
 
 The juror noted Cosby's deposition, saying he was surprised "how much [Cosby] admitted to." 
 
 "He didn't deny anything," the juror said. "It happened. He admitted to it." 
 
 Constand, 44, testified last week that Cosby gave her three blue pills and then penetrated her with his fingers against her will as she lay paralyzed and half-conscious. She denied they had a romantic relationship and said she had rebuffed previous advances from him. 
 
 Defense lawyer Brian McMonagle, however, attacked what he said were inconsistencies in Constand's story, disputed that Constand was incapacitated, and made the case that she and Cosby, who was married, had a romantic relationship. McMonagle said Cosby gave her the cold and allergy medicine Benadryl only after she complained she couldn't sleep. 
 
 The sole witness for the defense was the detective who led the 2005 investigation, Richard Schaffer, who previously took the stand during the prosecution's case. He was questioned for six minutes. 
 
 The juror said it would be a "waste of money" to prosecute again, saying that Cosby "to go further would be a shame. This man -- this has already cost him his career ... He's paid." ||||| How a Delco man sought to use stolen U.S. military weapons to wage war in Liberia 
 
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 Gianna Constand, left, and her daughter Andrea Constand, right, walk toward the courtroom inside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, PA on June 12, 2017. Cosby is on trial for sexual assault. Both women testified in the trial. 
 
 PITTSBURGH — A juror in Bill Cosby’s sex assault trial said Thursday that he did not believe the testimony of accuser Andrea Constand because she willingly went alone to the entertainer’s home and brought him gifts on more than one occasion. 
 
 “She was well-coached,” he said of Constand’s two days on the witness stand. “Let’s face it: She went up to his house with a bare midriff and incense and bath salts. What the heck?” 
 
 The juror, who spoke with the Inquirer and Daily News at his home on the condition of anonymity, would not say whether he wanted to convict or acquit Cosby. But he said the seven men and five women on the panel were nearly evenly split after 52 hours of deliberations, a deadlock that prompted Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill to declare a mistrial on Saturday. He also said Cosby had already “paid dearly” for the allegations and should not be retried. 
 
 The juror was the second to offer a window into the deliberation room of the case, and his account appeared to contradict the first. That juror told ABC News on Monday that 10 of the 12 panel members were prepared to find Cosby guilty on two of the three counts against him. 
 
 The juror who discussed the case Thursday said that at one point deep into deliberations, there had been a 10-2 vote to convict Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting Constand, but that three panel members later changed their votes and wanted to acquit him. 
 
 Votes were split “up the middle: young and old, black and white, men and women,” he said. 
 
 He said he thought the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict because the language describing the charges – three counts of aggravated indecent assault stemming from an incident in 2004 – was confusing and “too legal.” 
 
 Jurors struggled over terms such as reckless and severely impaired while debating whether Cosby drugged and molested Constand without her consent, he said. Some of their requests to review testimony during deliberations, he said, were based on desire to find those words in the evidence. 
 
 “We were trying to match the testimony up with the charges,” he said. “Everybody’s interpretation of those words was something different.” 
 
 He spoke a day after O’Neill, acting on a petition from news outlets including the Inquirer and Daily News, released the names of the 12 jurors and six alternates who were chosen in Allegheny County and sequestered for the trial near Norristown. Most have since refused to comment on the case or their deliberations, following a directive the judge gave before discharging them Saturday and repeated in a ruling this week. 
 
 Though the juror who spoke Thursday did not reveal his vote, he did make clear his skepticism about Constand, the 44-year-old accuser from Toronto who said she viewed Cosby only as a friend and mentor and never sought a romantic relationship. Specifically, the juror said, she should have gone to Cosby’s home only if she was “dressed properly and left the incense in the store,” referring to a gift that she brought him when the two formed a friendship before the alleged assault. 
 
 In a deposition read to jurors, Cosby detailed a sexual liaison he had with Constand when she showed up at his home with her midriff exposed, some time before the night of the alleged assault. Constand denies that encounter ever occurred.​ 
 
 Still, the juror’s impression seemed to echo the trial defense Cosby’s lawyers sought to present: that Constand, then a 31-year-old Temple University employee, was in or seeking a romantic relationship with the then-66-year-old entertainer and world-famous university trustee. 
 
 He said he found Cosby’s own words in 2005, to police and in the deposition for a civil lawsuit filed by Constand, convincing. In that deposition and since, Cosby maintained any sexual contact was consensual. 
 
 “He was extremely honest. He admitted to things,” the juror said. 
 
 He also saw Constand’s mother as the driving force behind her decision to report the alleged assault to police a year after it occurred. “It was her mother who forced all this,” the panel member said. 
 
 He also said the jury did not let the allegations of the more than 60 women who have come forward to accuse Cosby of sexual misconduct influence its decision. He said he believed many of those women fabricated their claims. 
 
 “This is ridiculous, unbelievable,” he said. “I think more than half jumped on the bandwagon.” 
 
 Nor did he feel that he or others were influenced by outside information or by Cosby’s celebrity. The juror, one of the older members on the panel, said he used to watch The Cosby Show occasionally but was never an avid fan. During the trial, he said, he saw not a superstar but a tired old man. 
 
 “I think he was weathered,” he said. “I wondered if he was going to be able to make it through the whole trial the first couple of days, but he did.” 
 
 Jurors did not yell or argue during deliberations, he said, but the room was tense, once draped in prolonged silence. 
 
 “There may have been one 10-minute break of total silence, and then the question came up: Did the courthouse have a chapel?” he said. 
 
 There was no chapel, and deliberations continued. But in the end, he said, “the jury was stalled on everything.” 
 
 Cosby, 79, “has paid dearly” already for the allegations against him, the juror said, because his career has been destroyed. He said he did not think District Attorney Kevin R. Steele should pursue a retrial, as he has said he will do. 
 
 “They should’ve left it closed. … There wasn’t enough evidence to move the case forward,” he said, echoing Cosby’s lawyer’s arguments about the 2005 decision by then-District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. to close the case without charging Cosby. 
 
 Now, he said, there was nothing to consider beyond decade-old evidence. “No stained garment, no smoking gun, nothing,” the juror said. 
 
 The juror said most members of the jury exchanged contact information when it ended and voiced a desire to keep in touch. But he said he would not keep in contact with his peers. And he won’t pay attention if there is a second trial, he said. 
 
 “It would be a waste of Montgomery [County] money with the money it cost,” he said. 
 
 He said he and the other jurors were treated well during their stay in Norristown. Asked whether he enjoyed the experience, the juror said simply, “I’m glad I did my civic duty.” ||||| (CNN) The jury in Bill Cosby's assault trial agreed on many points in the case and accepted his accuser's testimony as true, but they remained at a hopeless deadlock because some were confused by how the charges were worded, a juror told CNN. 
 
 Parts of testimony from key witness Andrea Constand against Cosby were "unbelievable," the juror said, but her contradicting memory of dates in the case didn't have a big impact on the jury split. 
 
 "It didn't matter if it was January or March, or what the dates were, the fact that it happened, we accepted that. We accepted all that," said the juror, who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity. "But we could not accept the way the charges were written." 
 
 Still, the juror had questions about her version of events. 
 
 "It's questionable that she asked for help from Mr. Cosby and she shows up wearing a bare midriff and she has incense with her and bath salts with her, and no matter who gave her the bath salts, that's questionable," he said. 
 
 The juror's comments come less than a week after a judge declared a mistrial in the case . The comedian, 79, faced three charges of aggravated indecent assault, but jurors could not come to a unanimous verdict on any of the three counts. 
 
 Prosecutors said Cosby drugged and assaulted Constand, the former director of operations for Temple University's women's basketball team, at his Pennsylvania home in January 2004. Defense attorneys argued that the sexual activity was part of a consensual relationship between the two. 
 
 Judge Steven O'Neill released the names of jurors to the media earlier this week, but kept the jury deliberations confidential, according to a court document released Wednesday. The document states that a disclosure of anything said or done during deliberations "would have a chilling effect upon future jurors in this case and their ability to deliberate freely." 
 
 Inside the jury room 
 
 Amid over 52 hours of testimony, the jury remained deeply divided, with votes largely stuck at 5 to 7 or 7 to 5. At one point, they reached a 10-2 vote to convict , but three jurors then quickly changed their votes, he said. 
 
 The jury was bused from Allegheny County, near Pittsburgh, to Montgomery County and sequestered in hotels for the duration of the trial . The panel consisted of four white women, six white men, one black woman and one black man. But the splits were across every demographic, the juror said. 
 
 "From my point of view it was right up the middle: Young and old, black and white, men and women," the juror said. 
 
 He suspected that the case against Cosby, which centered on events that allegedly occurred 13 years ago, was brought now because of "politics." 
 
 "We had no real new evidence," he said. "There was no soiled clothing, no smoking gun, no new evidence." 
 
 The sticking point, the juror said, was the language of the charges. 
 
 "They were legally written with a lot of different words than what was said out in the courtroom, and it caused the jurors to keep going back to the judge looking where these words were like "reckless" and "unconscious" and "severely impaired" and "unreasonable doubt." Now we had out there reasonable doubt, but not unreasonable doubt. What is unreasonable doubt? We spent a lot of time trying to figure these words out that were in these charges, which made them so much more severe than what all the testimony, or I heard closing arguments was. We never heard those words, and that's where the problem was." 
 
 "'Reckless' was one word that we spent a whole day on trying to figure out whether he was reckless going upstairs and getting pills," the juror said. "Just, you couldn't convict him on the wording of the charges. And that's where we argued back and forth. What meant one thing to one person and something to another, and after they slept on it they changed their minds." 
 
 The case against Cosby 
 
 Constand initially told police about the alleged assault in January 2005, but the district attorney at the time declined to press charges, citing insufficient evidence. 
 
 A new district attorney, Kevin Steele, brought charges against Cosby in 2015, months after a judge unsealed Cosby's deposition in a civil lawsuit in which he admitted to procuring powerful drugs to give to women with whom he wanted to have sex. 
 
 Prosecutors have said they plan to re-try Cosby again within the year. But the juror who spoke to CNN said that would just be a "waste of money" because he thought another jury would have the same problem coming to a conclusion as well. 
 
 "If they handle the case the same way they did this, and there's no new evidence... and it'll probably be another year or two until they can get this thing up. It'd be a waste of money," he said. 
 
 The juror also detailed the "royal" treatment they received while sequestered for the trial, including a two-week stay in hotel suites, private dinners at nice restaurants, and escorted trips everywhere they went. 
 
 Still, the jury experience was exhausting and frustrating, and left multiple people in tears, he said. 
 
 To illustrate that point, he said that on the first smoke break in jury deliberations, three jurors went out for a cigarette. 
 
 By the final smoke break, after almost a week of tense deliberations, seven people ventured out, including one juror who had been off cigarettes for 21 years. 
 
 "That's tense," he said. ||||| FILE - In this June 17, 2017 file photo, Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Cosby will organize a series of town hall meetings to help... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this June 17, 2017 file photo, Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Cosby will organize a series of town hall meetings to help educate young people about problems their misbehavior could create, a spokesman for Cosby said Thursday,... (Associated Press) 
 
 PITTSBURGH (AP) — A juror in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial said Thursday that some jurors were concerned that prosecutors waited 10 years to charge him, expressing suspicion that politics had played a role in the case. 
 
 The juror told The Associated Press that the panel was almost evenly split in its deliberations, with a similar number of jurors wanting to convict the 79-year-old entertainer as acquit him on charges he drugged and molested a woman at his Philadelphia-area home in 2004. 
 
 He was the second juror to speak out after the jury deadlocked in the case. A mistrial was declared Saturday after 52 hours of deliberations. Prosecutors plan to put Cosby on trial again. 
 
 The juror who spoke to the AP questioned the long delay in bringing charges against the TV star, suggesting that "no new evidence from '05 to now has showed up, no stained clothing, no smoking gun, nothing." 
 
 In reality, prosecutors reopened the investigation in 2015 after the public release of a deposition that Cosby gave in 2005 and 2006 as part of accuser Andrea Constand's lawsuit against him — testimony that hadn't been offered when another district attorney passed on the case in early 2005. Prosecutors used Cosby's deposition as evidence at the criminal trial. 
 
 The juror spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive deliberations. 
 
 Constand, a former Temple University employee, told jurors Cosby gave her pills that made her woozy and then penetrated her with his fingers as she lay paralyzed on a couch, unable to tell him to stop. Cosby has said his encounter with Constand was consensual. 
 
 Constand, now 44, initially went to police about a year after she said Cosby assaulted her, but a prosecutor declared her case too weak to bring charges. 
 
 A decade later, another district attorney revived the probe after excerpts from Cosby's lurid deposition about drugs and sex became public and dozens of women came forward also alleging sexual assault by him. Cosby was charged shortly before the statute of limitations was set to expire. 
 
 The juror who spoke to the AP said other jurors expressed the view in the deliberating room that "politics was involved." 
 
 "I think they created this whole thing, a case that was settled in '05, and we had to bring it up again in '17 with no new evidence," the juror said. 
 
 The juror declined to reveal whether he wanted to convict or acquit Cosby but left little doubt about how he felt. 
 
 He said he was suspicious of Constand's story, questioning why she waited to tell authorities and suggesting the clothing she wore to Cosby's house had influenced his view of their encounter. 
 
 "When you ask for help on your resume, on your resignation letter, which she did, and he, Mr. Cosby, invites her to his home and she arrives in a bare midriff with incense and bath salts, that's a question," said the juror, appearing to lump several meetings between Cosby and Constand into one. 
 
 Cosby, he said, seemed more truthful in his deposition, in which he acknowledged giving pills to Constand before their sexual encounter. The comedian also described how, in the 1970s, he obtained prescriptions for the powerful sedative quaaludes for the purpose of offering them to women with whom he wanted to have sex. 
 
 "He openly admitted that what he gave 'em, he gave 'em pills," the juror said. "He almost incriminated himself. It was very, very honest from his side. You could believe from his testimony what he did, but not from her." 
 
 The juror characterized the deliberations as tense. 
 
 "Crying by men and by women and more than one," he said. "And the tears came towards the end, it was so tense." 
 
 Another juror told ABC News on Wednesday that jurors had voted 10-2 to convict Cosby on two of three counts against him. The juror who spoke to the AP confirmed that vote but said three people then changed their minds. He said the panel was typically more "evenly split" and "up the middle." 
 
 Cosby is eager to get back to work following the mistrial, a spokesman said. A series of town halls is planned to help educate young people about the problems their misbehavior could create, spokesman Andrew Wyatt told a Birmingham, Alabama, TV station. The issue "is bigger than Bill Cosby" and can affect any young person, especially young athletes, Wyatt said, without elaborating. 
 
 The AP does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission, which Constand has done. 
 
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 Rubinkam reported from northeastern Pennsylvania. 
 
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 For more on Cosby, including stories about the trial, historical photos, videos and an audio series exploring the case, visit http://www.apnews.com/tag/CosbyonTrial .
– Another Bill Cosby juror has spoken out anonymously, telling the Philadelphia Inquirer that votes were split "up the middle: young and old, black and white, men and women." He blamed that on the language to describe the charges being confusing and "too legal," saying jurors debated terms like "reckless" and "severely impaired." When they asked to review testimony during deliberations, "we were trying to match the testimony up with the charges," he said. "Everybody’s interpretation of those words was something different." As for his own vote, he wouldn't say what it was, but he did mention he did not find accuser Andrea Constand believable. "She was well-coached," he said of Constand’s testimony. "Let’s face it: She went up to his house with a bare midriff and incense and bath salts. What the heck?" He added that she should have gone to Cosby's home "dressed properly" and she should have "left the incense [a gift for Cosby] in the store." CNN, CBS, and the AP also have new interviews with an anonymous juror or jurors, and while it's not clear whether it's the same one, the sentiments expressed were similar. "When you ask for help on your resume, on your resignation letter, which she did, and he, Mr. Cosby, invites her to his home and she arrives in a bare midriff with incense and bath salts, that's a question," said the juror the AP spoke to. (Cosby plans to lecture on sex assault.)