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Bill Cosby to appear in court as retrial process begins

Disgraced funnyman Bill Cosby is due in a suburban Philadelphia court early Tuesday, just two months after a jury deadlock in his sex-assault case resulted in a mistrial.

Cosby, who announced Monday that he would be represented by celebrity attorney Thomas Mesereau at a November retrial, is slotted to attend alongside the attorneys who represented him in the June trial, Brian McMonagle and Angela Agrusa.

Mesereau, known for winning an acquittal for Michael Jackson in his 2005 child molestation trial, has also repped boxer Mike Tyson and actor Robert Blake.

One main issue to be determined Tuesday is where the next jury pool will be located. McMonagle successfully argued before the first trial that the 80-year-old was too much of a celebrity in Montgomery County, where the case is being heard.

Jurors were chosen from Pittsburgh the last time around to determine if Cosby was guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault for the alleged drugging and molestation of Temple University employee Andrea Constand in his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004.

The hearing, during which Montgomery County Court Judge Steven O’Neill is expected to release McMonagle and Agrusa from their duties, is slotted to begin at 9:30.

McMonagle and Agrusa filed motions to withdraw as counsel to “America’s Dad” earlier in August, amid reports they clashed with Cosby’s spokesman, Andrew Wyatt. Agrusa will stay on as civil counsel, Wyatt previously told The Post.