PHILADELPHIA (AP) The jury that convicted Bill Cosby at his sexual assault retrial said that its decision was only influenced by what happened in court, and the youngest member of the panel said that the comedians own words sealed his fate.
Harrison Snyder said in an interview aired this morning on ABCs Good Morning America that Cosbys deposition in which he admitted giving women drugs to have sex with them was the evidence that made him believe he was guilty.
I think it was his deposition, really. Mr. Cosby admitted to giving these quaaludes to women, young women, in order to have sex with them, Snyder said of a deposition that was part of a civil case brought by accuser Andrea Constand.
The 22-year-old said it wasnt an open and shut case, but that he had no doubt the jury made the right decision in convicting Cosby Thursday on three counts of aggravated indecent assault.
The investigation into Cosby was reopened in July 2015 after a federal judge, acting on a request from The Associated Press, unsealed portions of Cosbys deposition testimony from a civil lawsuit he settled with Constand in 2006 for $3.4 million. In the testimony, which was read to jurors at both trials, he described giving quaaludes to women before sex in the 1970s and his encounters with Constand, a Temple University womens basketball administrator.
Snyder said he didnt know much about the 80-year-old comedian before the trial and knew nothing of the allegations.
I knew he was an actor, I knew he did the Cosby Show. I never watched the Cosby Show, Im a little too young for that, Snyder said.
