The women who accuse him of sexual misconduct for almost that long say the charges were a long time coming. Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill acknowledged that Cosby is now blind and will need assistance at the trial.
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Cosby’s lawyers say they’ll oppose any testimony from other accusers.
Attorney Gloria Allred rejected accusations by Wyatt that her representation of several women accusing the comedian of drugging and sexually abusing them was built on racial bias and prejudice.
Prosecutors said they reviewed accusations made against Cosby by about 50 women and concluded 13 should be allowed to testify.
Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse with his criminal defense lawyer Brian McMonagle (L) after a pretrial conference related to aggravated indecent assault charges on September 6, 2016, in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Approximately 60 women have accused Cosby of similar attacks, though the Constand case is the only one to result in a criminal prosecution. Prosecutors, however, are allowed on rare occasions to use evidence or witnesses to prove a defendant committed a crime as part of a longstanding pattern of behavior.
Allred also represents Judy Huth, who filed a lawsuit accusing Cosby of underage sexual abuse. His trial’s set to begin June 5th, 2017.
Constand told police that Cosby gave her three unmarked pills and then molested her as she drifted in and out of consciousness.
Cosby’s lawyers have filed their own motions seeking to bar certain evidence, including a telephone conversation between Cosby and Constand’s mother that was secretly recorded and a deposition in which the comedian admitted giving Quaaludes to women before sexual encounters.
“Yet over the last 14 months, Mr. Cosby and those who have supported him have been ignored while lawyers like Gloria Allred hold press conferences to accuse him of crimes for unwitnessed events that allegedly occurred nearly a half-century earlier”. But prosecutors who played the tape in court argued that Cosby said he heard beeps on the call and asked if he was being taped. “This is not an issue of racial bias”.
“We’ve seen a barrage of new accusers”. The defense said the call violated Pennsylvania’s two-party consent law on wiretaps.
In the conversation, Cosby described the sex act with Constand as “digital penetration” but refused to say what pills he had given her daughter.
Allred dismissed the charges against her, releasing a statement that said Cosby “appears desperate”.
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Those allegations have seen celebrity pals and millions more malign the legend who attained his greatest fame for his role as a lovable obstetrician and family man in the hit 1980s television sitcom “The Cosby Show”.
