Over the next three decades, the Philadelphia-born comic created TV’s animated “Fat Albert” and the top-rated “Cosby Show”, the 1980s sitcom celebrated as groundbreaking television for its depiction of a warm and loving family headed by two black professionals – one a lawyer, the other a doctor. “So if a judge chooses to consider from a prosecutor such testimony, then we will deal with that at that time”.
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Bill Cosby’s lawyer accuses prosecutor of playing politics
Constand reported the incident to police at the time, who investigated and closed the case when officials declined to prosecute. Inside, he seemed to have trouble seeing the paperwork and finding the place to sign, and his lawyers helped him hold the pen.
Cosby, who has denied criminality to the point of suing some accusers, should welcome his arrest as the opportunity to finally clear his name.
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Steele – who is the top deputy in the DA’s office and takes over next week – attacked Castor during the campaign for not prosecuting Cosby, running an ad that said: “Bruce Castor was not looking out for the victims”.
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Constand, 42, alleged that Cosby drugged her and violated her in 2004 at his home in Cheltenham Township, near Philadelphia. Cosby was arrested and charged Wednesday with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home 12 years ago.
“Even before the charges yesterday [there were victims], some of whom said they would be prepared to testify but just didn’t want to public before that time, and since yesterday I’ve had even more contacts from even more women”, Allred told the Today Show.
About his encounter with Constand, Cosby said under oath that it was consensual and that he gave her some Benadryl, an anti-allergy medication, to relax her.
Comedian Bill Cosby did not have to enter a plea for the sexual assault charge, and his bail was set at $1 million. But in almost every case, it is too late to file criminal charges. That could change if he is convicted in a criminal case.
The accusations against Cosby have common threads that paint a picture of a man who allegedly used his power and influence in the entertainment industry to seek out vulnerable young women and lure them in with the promise of mentorship.
“It is the DA office that has come back to bite them”, she said, adding that it was their office who made the decision that there was not enough sufficient evidence.
After the criminal case went nowhere, Constand settled her lawsuit against Cosby in 2006 on confidential terms.
Here’s what some of the women say they felt when they heard Cosby had been arraigned Wednesday in Pennsylvania over an allegation of sexual assault dating from 2004, a case his lawyers say is “unjustified”. This year, Castor said the allegations in Constand’s lawsuit were more serious than the account she gave police, and if that information had been known at the time, “we might have been able to make a case”.
After the charges came down, Cosby’s attorney accused Steele of “playing political football” with Cosby’s life.
That opened the floodgates to even more allegations.
The AP generally does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they agree to have their names published, as Constand has done.
“He’s really not a politician”, she said.
“On the evening in question, Mr Cosby urged her to take pills that he provided to her and to drink wine – the effect of which rendered her unable to move, (or to) respond to his advances, and he committed aggravated indecent assault upon her”, Steele said.
“If you look at the deposition you will see that there is no admission of criminal wrongdoing with respect to Mr. Cosby”, she said. And I don’t feel her say anything.
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Joan Tarshis, of Woodstock, New York, who accused Cosby of drugging and attacking her when she was breaking into comedy writing in 1969, referred questions to Joseph Cammarata, a Washington-based attorney who is representing her in the MA defamation case that Tarshis and six other women filed against the comedian.
