Bill Cosby granted appeal in Pennsylvania sexual assault case

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The actor and comedian has been imprisoned for nearly two years after a jury convicted him of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004.

Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill allowed just one of them to testify at Cosby's first trial in 2017, which ended with an acquittal.reporting on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men

Lawyer Brian Perry argued in the appeal that letting other accusers testify in #MeToo cases "flips constitutional jurisprudence on its head, and the 'presumption of guilt', rather than the presumption of innocence, becomes the premise." "In each instance, [he] met a substantially younger woman, gained her trust, invited her to a place where he was alone with her, provided her with a drink or drug, and sexually assaulted her once she was rendered incapacitated," Mr O'Neill wrote in a post-trial opinion.Cosby was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting his one-time friend Andrea Constand.

 

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He's not an actor and comedian anymore, he's a convicted felon.

Used to love his 'Noah' routine...

I'm missing Theo Huxtable on tv.

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