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Bill Cosby Civil Trial Jury Must Start Deliberations Over Due to Odd Technicality

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The Associated Press detailed the strange technicality on Saturday, in which jurors — after two days of deliberations — reached answers on nearly all nine of the questions put before them, save for one.

But before the last decision could be reached on Friday, deputies in the Santa Monica Courthouse required the judge to clear the courtroom by 4:30 p.m.

that afternoon because the courthouse has no budget to pay the deputies overtime.However, Judge Craig Karlan had promised one juror she could leave after Friday in order to serve a prior commitment.

But when the courthouse was cleared, the judge stood by his word that she would not have to come back on Monday, meaning that the remaining jurors will now deliberate all over again with a new juror as an alternate.

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