The panel was excused at 9:40 p.m., after a 13-hour day that included a six-minute defense case and nearly five hours of closing arguments from both sides.

"All right, ladies and gentlemen," Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill told the tired-looking panel as they filed into the courtroom. "I remind you, you worked a full day. This is a conscientious jury, and a hard-working jury."

"A rested mind is a good mind for deliberations," he said in closing.

Both Cosby and his accuser, Andrea Constand, remained on opposite sides of the courthouse until the jurors were dismissed, and came into the courtroom to watch them depart.

Jurors sent out one last note before ending the day, asking to hear the deposition Cosby gave over a four-day period in 2005-06 in which he detailed the sexual encounter with Constand.