Bill Cosby was released from prison after a Pennsylvania appeals court on Wednesday overturned his sexual assault conviction, undoing one of the highest-profile prosecutions to emerge amid the “Me Too” movement. In a 4-3 decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that evidence used to secure Cosby’s 2018 conviction violated his due process rights after prosecutors […]
After six days of deliberation, the seven men and five women selected to serve on the jury were unable to render a unanimous verdict on any of the three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault with which Cosby had been charged. The comedian pleaded not guilty. Kevin R. Steel, the district attorney from Montgomery County, […]
In 2005 and 2006, Bill Cosby was questioned by lawyers for Andrea Constand, a former Temple University basketball manager who said Cosby sexually assaulted her in 2004. In his deposition, he admitted to giving drugs and alcohol to women he wanted to have sex with. “I give her quaaludes,” Cosby told the lawyers. “We then […]
