UPDATED: Mistrial is declared in sexual-assault trial of entertainer Bill Cosby

[MrPurple]

27. The jury didn't know about the 50+ women who had similar experiences

The general public has heard more evidence than the jury did. 50+ women came forward and said that Cosby drugged and raped them over the decades. I think only one of them was allowed to testify in this trial and the defense got the rest excluded.

Based on the evidence that was presented in this trial, I might have ruled that there was reasonable doubt, but I've seen dozens of these women interviewed and it seems extremely unlikely that they're all lying for a payday or that they've experienced some kind of mass hallucination.

What's kind of incredible is that if Hannibel Burress, a comedian, hadn't done a routine at a club in Philly about Cosby's previous civil suit about this, which someone filmed on their phone and went viral, this wouldn't have gotten press and the additional women wouldn't have come forward (14 of them already had over 10 years ago), the public wouldn't have known/cared about this and Cosby would be starring in a tv show now with his popularity unscathed.