Bill Cosby allowed to appeal sexual assault conviction before Pennsylvania Supreme Court

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Bill Cosby allowed to appeal sexual assault conviction before Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

The high court said allowing the testimony from witnesses about"allegations of uncharged misconduct involving sexual contact" could have been more prejudicial than probative.

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court also wants to hear arguments on the fairness of using civil trial statements made by Cosby against him in criminal court. Lawyers for Cosby have long argued that a previous Montgomery County district attorney promised not to prosecute the comedian for his contacts with former Temple University employee Andrea Constand.

With that perceived immunity, Cosby allowed himself to be questioned during depositions in 2005 and 2006 in a lawsuit by Constand, defense lawyers have said.But Kevin Steele, at the time a new county district attorney, said he wasn't bound by his predecessor's deal and brought a high-profile prosecution against the man once known as"America's dad."

The high court said it will ponder whether Cosby"reasonably relied upon those oral and written statements by providing deposition testimony in the civil action, thus forfeiting his constitutional right against self-incrimination."

 

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I would like to appealing the American leaders should consider to put all people belong to the Black Live Matter organization into prison because they have vandalized historical monument US, national security, economic, anarchical. government need to set US again

Boy this guy does not need to be in prison.

It's all about the money! If Cosby was poverty stricken he wouldn't have been jailed In marginal communities this is a never ending nightmare for women and children No one goes to jail! Hypocrites all!

I just want the hate and racism to stop.. This company pyermoss claims to be a minority owned business but guess what they are using cotton to make their shirts, the same cash crop the south used to profit off of slaves... when will the racism stop boycottcotton endracism BLM

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What could his argument possibly be to alter anything?

What a waste of tax payers money

Freakin' drugger rapist

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They won't find him appealing anytime soon....😆

Even creeps get due process in America

He will be out because they will say the charges were brought too late. What a POS.

This is BS plain and simple!

If you haven't actually READ his petition, your opinion is worthless.

I wonder what his argument is going to be, on what basis

Bill Cosby = psychopath

If he wins then it will just prove that sex offenders can get a way with assaulting women or anyone else

So he was not released to home because of COVID but others were 😠

Though nor condoning what he may have done. Quiet rightly so. Systemic racism has played a part in high profile personalities that gets arrested and prosecuted for sexual offences. How many have you heard from Epstein's so called 'black book'? or any other for that matter?

POS.

Nope...nope nope nope nope Y'all..Cosby is straight up a fckn creeper rapist, that was not exactly a secret back in the 80s in SoCal, I assure you...in that 'it was a different time' era where pedos and rapists didn't even try to hide it, they snickered abt it Fck this bullshit

are you SERIOUS!!!!! what next?

He’ll be out on appeal and home in a week.

What other prisoner would get this - money, money money! Justice for the rich and that is it period! Who else could afford lawyers to make this happen?

EliEstherVizio He will pay both sides of the court costs b/c f this

Oh dear, seems Dr. Cliff Huxtable is after a second opinion.

He can try, but it won’t accomplish anything

Let him out... musta been crooked cops 😂😂😂

He is gonna play sick card

He's not going win this

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