PHILADELPHIA — A jury from the Pittsburgh area will determine Bill Cosby’s fate at his sexual assault trial, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor said Monday.

The jurors will travel to Montgomery County, where Judge Steven T. O’Neill has said they will be sequestered for the duration of the trial.

Cosby’s lawyers successfully sought an out-of-town jury pool, citing media coverage of the case and noting that the investigation into Cosby became an issue in the 2015 race for Montgomery County district attorney.

They said a jury should be pulled from an urban center with “more diverse and opposing viewpoints.”

Allegheny, with a population of 1.2 million, is the second-largest county in the state. The county’s population is 82 percent white, slightly higher than the 80 percent of Montgomery, the third most-populous in the state at 800,000, according to the Census Bureau. African-Americans constitute 14.9 percent of Allegheny County’s population, compared with 8.9 percent in Montgomery County.

Cosby is charged with aggravated indecent assault, accused of drugging and molesting Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his home in Cheltenham in 2004. His trial is scheduled to begin June 5 in Norristown.