Cosby is free on $1 million bail pending a January 14 preliminary hearing. Cosby was looking down and was guided as he walked into the small courtroom. Cosby’s attorney had the passport in hand and handed it over to the prosecutor.
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The victim had twice rejected Cosby’s advances, but a combination of drugs and wine, which Cosby supplied, left her unable to resist, Steele said.
According to the complaint, Constand met Cosby through her work at his alma mater, and the two developed what she “believed to be a honest friendship”.
Director Judd Apatow wrote: ‘Bill Cosby has spent his life attempting to silence the women he has assaulted with threats, lawsuits and money.
A charge of aggravated indecent assault is punishable by five to 10 years behind bars and a $25,000 fine.
Cosby is accused of sexually assaulting and drugging a woman in 2004 at his suburban Philadelphia home.
Prosecutors in the United States are allowed to introduce into court such statements from civil lawsuits as long as the material is relevant to their case, lawyers with expertise in criminal defense said.
It’s happening: Bill Cosby was briefly taken into police custody after being charged with the sexual assault of a former Temple University student in 2004. Cosby’s biggest legal penalty had been Constand’s civil suit and a quiet settlement in 2005. Law enforcement across the country could use the case as circumstantial evidence for other sexual assault cases.
Prosecutors reexamined the original investigation in light of the new documents, reinterviewed some witnesses and chose to pursue the criminal charge.
Cosby and Constand shared a connection with Temple University.
The statements could be important for prosecutors as they try to tease out potential inconsistencies in Cosby’s version of events. There was also wine provided.
“The victim did not consent to any of these acts and reported that she was unable to move or speak and felt “frozen” and ‘paralyzed, ‘” the district attorney’s office said.
Second, this must be a trial about whether one person is guilty of one sexual assault at a certain place and time; not a trial where 50 accusers testify.
The charge follows dozens of claims from different women that he drugged and abused them over a period of more than 40 years.
Prosecutors also said there are probably other women who were similarly drugged and violated by Cosby. Cosby said the women’s accusations hurt his reputation so much that plans for a new family comedy on NBC were derailed.
Cosby, wearing a black and white hooded sweater, was stone-faced as he entered and exited the court through a media scrum.
“There is a fatal difference now between Cliff Huxtable and Bill Cosby that can never be overcome”, said author and professor Michael Eric Dyson, who wrote a book on Cosby a decade ago.
Attorney Gloria Allred, who said she represents 29 Cosby accusers (but not Constand), hailed the charges. Dolores Troiani, her lawyer, said: “We hope justice will be done”.
“I do not think prison is necessarily would be restitution for us”.
It’s the first criminal case brought against the comedian out of the torrent of allegations that destroyed his good-guy image as America’s Dad.
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The charge was laid just before the statute of limitations in the case ran out in January.
