Bill Cosby to Be Released From Prison After Sexual Assault Conviction Overturned

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Bill Cosby is set to be released from prison after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his 2018 sexual assault conviction Wednesday following an appeal by his legal team

The focus of the appeal was the decision to allow the testimony of five other women who claimed Cosby had drugged and sexually assaulted them to be entered as evidence.

In the appeal, Cosby’s lawyers argued that the court applied that rule “so expansively as to strip an accused of the presumption of innocence and relieve the prosecution of its burden of proof by permitting a jury to hear, and base its verdict on, dissimilar and inflammatory, decades-old propensity evidence concerting allegations of prior sexual assaults from multiple accusers.”

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed the Superior Court decision and agreed with Cosby’s lawyers, saying that additional testimony tainted the trial,

 

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So a sex offender gets released from prison but Britney Spears has to continue on with her imprisoned life for literally no reason at all?! 🤯

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Must have got the twittet feed from earth 2 by mistake!

Bill Cosby was in prison? learn something new everyday

da fuq?

Rumour has it they fed him exclusively Jello pudding in the joint!

“Hey hey hey It’s my lucky day”

Where’s the outrage from the “Me Too” and unequal justice crowds ?

I bet Crosby didn't 'see' this coming...

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Every sexual predator in prison has to be asking when is their turn to get out now. Bill Cosby paving the way?

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