The deadlocked jury deliberating for a fifth day at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial asked for a definition of “reasonable doubt” Friday — and to revisit his Quaaludes testimony.
They zeroed in on Cosby’s admission he obtained seven prescriptions for Quaaludes in the 1970s so he could give the now banned sedative to women he hoped to seduce.
Cosby sat motionless as the jury heard the decade-old testimony Cosby gave in the 2005 lawsuit filed by his accuser Andrea Constand.
In one passage re-read for jurors, Constand’s lawyer asked Cosby if he recalled giving Quaaludes to Therese Serignese after meeting her in Las Vegas in 1976.
“Yes,” Cosby said.
“Did she know what they were?” the lawyer asked.
“I believe so,” he answered vaguely.
Serignese is now one of Cosby’s most high-profile accusers. She was at the courthouse Friday and is suing him for defamation in federal court in Massachusetts.
A nurse from Florida, Serignese claims Cosby raped her after knocking her out with the medication.
Fellow accuser Linda Kirkpatrick walked out of Friday’s courtroom session feeling stunned, she told the Daily News.
Cosby accuser Linda Kirkpatrick said it was the first time she learned Cosby obtained seven Quaaludes prescriptions — enough to last him until her alleged assault in 1981.
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