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Bill Cosby was convicted Thursday of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. AP reporter Michael Sisak explains how it all unfolded in the Pennsylvania courtroom. (April 26)
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Actor and comedian Bill Cosby comes out of the courthouse after the verdict in the retrial of his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. on April 26.(Photo: Dominick Reuter, AFP/Getty Images)

PHILADELPHIA – A juror on the Bill Cosby sexual assault retrial case says the comedian’s own words sealed his fate.

Harrison Snyder, in an interview aired Monday on ABC’s Good Morning America, said that it “wasn’t an open and shut case.” But the 22-year-old says Cosby’s deposition – in which he admitted giving women drugs to have sex with them – was the evidence that made him believe he was guilty.

He says that he had no doubt the jury made the right decision in convicting Cosby Thursday on three counts of aggravated indecent assault.

NBC’s Today show said Monday the Cosby jury issued a statement saying its decision was not influenced in any way by factors other than what was seen and heard in the courtroom. They say race and the #MeToo movement were never discussed.

Snyder was the youngest member of the jury. He says he didn’t know much about the 80-year-old comedian before the trial and knew nothing of the allegations.

.@ABC EXCLUSIVE: Inside the Cosby deliberations.
Harrison Snyder, a juror in the trial, speaks out to our @LinseyDavis after last week’s verdict: https://t.co/MhqQqcHz0spic.twitter.com/E6OGrvJ95C

— Good Morning America (@GMA) April 30, 2018

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