NORRISTOWN — The judge weighing whether to publicly identify members of the jury that convicted Bill Cosby of sexual assault tore into the news media at a hearing on Tuesday, accusing reporters of stalking jurors at their homes and bombarding them with phone calls since last week’s verdict.

Judge Steven O’Neill told lawyers for The Associated Press and other news outlets seeking the jurors’ names that he had grave concerns for jurors’ privacy and floated the possibility of trespassing and harassment charges for journalists who don’t comply when asked to leave or to stop calling.

However, he conceded that a long-standing state Supreme Court ruling that the names of jurors should be made public under the First Amendment would almost certainly force him to disclose them.

Media lawyer Paul Safier argued that the public “has the right to know who made these momentous decisions.”

Prosecutors opposed the release of the jurors’ names, citing privacy concerns. Cosby’s lawyer didn’t take a side.

The judge did not say when he would rule.

The judge opened the hourlong hearing with a scathing media critique, saying he found it “curious” that some news outlets had already figured out who the jurors were.

“Each and every one of them had the press on their front lawns, calling them up, constantly harassing them,” he said. “The names were out there immediately. The media were at their homes immediately.”

One television network even booked a room at the hotel where jurors were sequestered during the trial, in hopes of scoring interviews, the judge said.

Only one juror has spoken to the media. Harrison Snyder told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday that Cosby’s 2005 deposition testimony about giving women Quaaludes before sex in the 1970s sealed his fate.