First Cosby juror explains his vote; the rest could be named publicly by Tuesday

Show Caption Hide Caption Bill Cosby accusers: 'Justice is served!' Bill Cosby was found guilty on all three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Thursday. One victim Cosby said the conviction is a "victory for womanhood and sexual assault survivors."

For Juror No. 1 in Bill Cosby's retrial, it was the comedian/actor's own admission that he drugged women that helped the juror determine Cosby was guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault.

The seven men and five women of the Cosby retrial jury were sequestered and they have not been publicly named. Harrison Snyder is the first one to come forward in a media interview, but the other jurors' names could be made public following a hearing scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.

Snyder, who at 22 is admittedly "a little too young" to have been a fan of The Cosby Show when it originally aired in the '80s and early '90s, painted a portrait of the deliberation room on Good Morning America Monday.

Snyder pinpointed Cosby's 2005 deposition as the evidence that pointed him towards guilty. In a 2005 deposition, Cosby acknowledged he acquired drugs, including the now-banned sedative quaaludes, to give to women he sought for sex. Cosby also acknowledged he repeatedly engaged in extramarital sexual relationships with young women he met as one of the most popular and powerful men in Hollywood.

"Cosby admitted to giving these quaaludes to women — young women, in order to have sex with them," Snyder told ABC News correspondent Lindsey Davis.

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Harrison Snyder, a juror in the trial, speaks out to our @LinseyDavis after last week's verdict: https://t.co/MhqQqcHz0s pic.twitter.com/E6OGrvJ95C — Good Morning America (@GMA) April 30, 2018

Snyder's explanation that the deposition played a key role for him is notable because the deposition also was introduced at Cosby's first trial, which ended in a mistrial after that jury was unable to reach a unanimous vote on any count.

Snyder also said the Me Too movement did not play a role in the jury's decision, nor did the testimony of five other Cosby accusers, who were a new element introduced at the retrial.

The jury in Cosby's retrial found him guilty of aggravated indecent assault Thursday after about 12 hours of deliberation. His conviction on all three counts means they determined beyond a reasonable doubt that the comedian molested Temple University staffer Andrea Constand during a visit to his Philadelphia-area home in 2004, and that she could not consent because the pills he gave her rendered her unconscious.

Snyder said he entered the deliberation room without a guilty verdict necessarily in mind, but was convinced after "hearing everyone's comments about certain pieces of evidence and going through the different counts."

Snyder said the charges against Cosby, whom he says he knew little about, did not feel like an "open-and-shut case."

More: A complete list of the 60 Bill Cosby accusers and their reactions to the guilty verdict

Snyder also denied knowing of the Cosby allegations prior to performing jury duty. "I don't watch the news ever. So, I didn't even know what he was on trial for."

Similarly, he says he was not influenced by the Me Too movement. "I really only found out about it after I got home then I looked online to see what everything was," he said. "I didn't even really know about the Me Too movement."

Snyder said he believed Constand's testimony, but feels he would've voted to convict Cosby even if the additional five women hadn't testified, which Judge Steven O'Neill blocked at the first trial but allowed at the retrial.

"I don't think it really necessarily mattered that these other five women were here because he said it himself that he used these drugs for other women," he said.

Snyder said he doesn't have any doubts "at all" that the jury reached the right decision.

"Some have said that I made the right decision and some people have said that they still think that he's innocent," he said. "And I just tell them if you were there, you would say the same thing — you would say that he's guilty."

NBC's Morgan Radford read a statement from jury members on Today Monday that aligned with Snyder's remarks. "Not once were race or the #MeToo movement ever discussed, nor did either factor in our decision," the statement read.

"We were asked to assess the credibility of Ms. Constand's account of what happened to her, and each one of us found her account credible and compelling."

Cosby remains confined to his suburban Philadelphia home awaiting a "sexually violent predator" pre-sentencing assessment. He is expected to be sentenced in about 70 days and could get 10 years in prison on each count.

Meanwhile, over the weekend, his secret conversations with a New York Post reporter came to light, revealing that Cosby had been talking to the paper's Page Six gossip column since before the first trial under the condition that the conversations would not come out until after the criminal case was over.

Cosby said that he has been mentally preparing for "that place" — a prison cell — all along. He said he rejected a plea deal last year because he didn't want to say he was guilty of anything. And he compared himself to the late South African president, Nelson Mandela, who spent years in prison on trumped-up charges.

"He was a free man, but I remember when we met him at Robben Island where he had been in a prison for all of those years. I sat in that cell where he lived, and I saw how he lived ... what he had to eat to live and what he went through," Cosby said.

“So, if they send me to that place, then that’s what they will do, and I will have to go there.”

“Not once were race or the #MeToo movement ever discussed, nor did either factor into our decision.” Cosby jury speaks out and says verdict was unanimous pic.twitter.com/B4H17nHAYW — TODAY (@TODAYshow) April 30, 2018

Contributing: Karl Baker, Maria Puente