A new defense team for Bill Cosby has taken a different approach to the case already, choosing to select a jury from Montgomery County. The comedian's retrial has also been postponed until March at the earliest, to allow the new defense lawyers to get up to speed.

It was a changing of the guard Tuesday, when Cosby appeared at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown with his new defense team, while the lawyers who represented him at trial in June showed up to officially withdraw from the case.

Once Cosby's defense lawyers from the first trial, Brian McMonagle and Angela Agrusa, had officially withdrawn Monday morning, Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Judge Steven T. O'Neill moved onto the matter of jury selection.

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