Bill Cosby: Mistrial Secrets & Jurors’ Names Revealed

Bill Cosby escaped his first criminal trial on sexual assault charges with a hung jury — and now one juror has spoken out as a judge decides to reveal all of their names!

ABC News landed an interview with the first juror to speak since Cosby was able to escape charges on drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004 — and says the entire jury began the trial believing that Cosby was innocent! The insider also said that Judge Steven O'Neill made the right call in eventually calling the mistrial. "If we kept going," the anonymous juror said, "there was definitely going to be a fight!"

The juror also revealed that there were actually two holdouts who refused to find Cosby guilty on all three counts of sexual assault. “There was no budging” he said about the first vote by the jury, adding: “There was none from there on out.” But the insider also said that most of the jurors were won over by the prosecution — with them all starting the trial expecting to find Cosby innocent.

The juror interviewed by ABC offered a personal opinion on the case, saying that the creepy comic's long history of sexual assault claims couldn't convince the juror that Cosby had planned to sexually assault Andrea: “I think that he gave [the pills] to her, and then later — when he saw what was up — maybe he figured, ‘Maybe I’ll do something.’”

But while the juror insisted on staying anonymous, Judge O'Neill shocked some courtroom observers by deciding to release their names — despite the outrage caused by Cosby going free. The decision was made despite both Cosby's defense team and the prosecutors asking O'Neill not to release the jurors' names.

The prosecution, which plans to bring Cosby back for a new trial, had told the judge that releasing the names "could have a chilling effect on future jurors. and could impair both parties' right to a fair and impartial trial."