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		</div><p>A judge has agreed to delay the start of Bill Cosby&#8217;s sexual assault retrial to allow his new lawyers to get up to speed on the case.</p>
<p>Judge Steven O&#8217;Neill granted a request by Cosby&#8217;s new legal team to delay the retrial, which had been scheduled to start in November, but said he still expects the 80-year-old comedian to be tried before next summer.</p>
<p>The new lawyers made their first court appearance on behalf of the Cosby Show star, who is charged with drugging and molesting a woman at his home near Philadelphia in 2004.</p>
<p>His first trial in June ended in a hung jury, setting the stage for a retrial.</p>
<p>The lawyers who represented Cosby at the first trial, Brian McMonagle and Angela Agrusa, had asked to be let off the case.</p>
<p>Montgomery County Judge O&#8217;Neill granted their request, praising them for their &#8220;extraordinary advocacy&#8221;.</p>
<p>As they left the courtroom, the departing lawyers shook hands with Cosby and his new legal team, which includes Tom Mesereau, the high-profile attorney who won an acquittal in Michael Jackson&#8217;s child molestation case.</p>
<p>Others on the team are former federal prosecutor Kathleen Bliss and Sam Silver, who represented now-imprisoned former US Representative Chaka Fattah in a corruption case.</p>
<p>The new lawyers said they want jurors picked from Montgomery County, where the alleged assault at Cosby&#8217;s home took place.</p>
<p>The first jury was selected from the Pittsburgh area and spent two weeks sequestered 300 miles from home.</p>
<p>Cosby is being retried on charges that he assaulted Andrea Constand in 2004. He has said their sexual encounter was consensual.</p>
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