The sight of 78-year-old Bill Cosby walking with a cane into a Pennsylvania courthouse as he held the hands of his lawyers on Wednesday was in stark contrast to the spry, wisecracking 1980s TV father most Americans remember. He left the police station in a black SUV after processing, and he will remain free on bail pending his trial.
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He has vehemently denied all of the allegations. That could change if he is convicted in a criminal case.
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A day after Bill Cosby was charged, arraigned and booked on an unprecedented sexual-assault charge, his lawyer on Thursday publicly signaled the initial shape of his defense: It’s all politics, and there will be no plea agreement.
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Most, if not all, of her own clients, Allred said, were barred from pursuing a criminal case by the statute of limitations – “that arbitrary time limit set by law from having their cases prosecuted”. On the Today show, his attorney said they are not interested in a plea deal. “Any time that a case is in the paper, it’s going to get everyone’s attention”, Skinner added.
Constand, a former employee at his alma mater, Philadelphia’s Temple University, was the first woman to come forward with sexual assault allegations against Cosby and is the first criminal charge brought against him. They typically require prosecutors to prove it is directly relevant. Those were the words of Monique Pressley, Bill Cosby’s attorney who was speaking to Savannah Guthrie on the TODAY programme in the United States this morning.
Steele says that after seeing the deposition material “reopening this case was not a question, rather it was our duty”.
The prosecution came as no surprise, his attorneys said, given that it followed a “hotly contested” election for district attorney in which “this case was made the focal point”.
“First, before we even have to mount a defence, we’ll have to look at the game of political football that this Montgomery County DA’s office has played with my client’s life”, Ms Pressley told ABC’s Good Morning America show. Indeed, the case was a hot topic during the race between Steele and D.A. Bruce Castor, who in 2005 declined to pursue criminal charges in this matter.
“What we have is not the effectuation of justice”.
Steele has maintained that he filed charges “because it was the right thing to do”, and that the case was re-eopened because new information became available.
Cosby, who exemplified the model family man in his long-running hit television series The Cosby Show, was charged with aggravated indecent assault, a second-degree felony carrying a maximum penalty of 5 to 10 years in prison and a $US25,000 fine.
Excerpts of the deposition were released by a judge this summer after the Associated Press filed a motion, and much more expansive excerpts were leaked to the New York Times later.
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When questioned by police as to whether he had sex with Constand, Cosby, according to the charging documents, answered, “never asleep or awake”.
