Bill Cosby listens to his wife Camille's statement being read aloud by Ebonee M. Benson after a mistrial in his sexual assault case. Photo / AP
A man who says he was one of the alternate jurors in the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial has told a Pittsburgh radio station that he would have voted to convict the comedian.
Mike McCloskey appears to be the first member of the sequestered 12-person jury or the panel of
six alternates to speak publicly about the case. Judge Steven T O'Neill has so far resisted requests by the media to release the names of the jurors.
McCloskey, who posted photos of his Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, juror's badge on Facebook to authenticate his claim, told WDVE radio that he was "ridiculously sick" when a mistrial was declared after the jury said it was "hopelessly deadlocked" on three counts of aggravated indecent assault.
"I would have voted to convict," McCloskey told the morning hosts on WDVE, a station that broadcasts Pittsburgh Steelers games.
McCloskey, who said he did not want to be selected because he feared jury service would prevent him from watching Pittsburgh Penguins hockey games, said he and other alternates were segregated from the rest of the jury during deliberations. Afterward, he was eager to find out what divided the main panel of 12 jurors. But on the long bus ride home to Pittsburgh, he said, there was little talk.
