A charge of aggravated indecent assault is punishable by five to 10 years behind bars and a $25,000 fine.
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The District Attorney said the case involves Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, who Cosby invited to his home near Philadelphia in 2004.
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“On the evening in question, Mr. Cosby urged her to take pills that he provided to her and to drink wine”.
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Embattled comedian Bill Cosby was free on bail Wednesday on a felony sexual assault charge, facing the first criminal charge against him after a series of rape accusations began mounting previous year.
Steele said the charges stemmed from new evidence in the case that came to light in July, prompting the reopening of the investigation.
The comedian has been accused by more than 50 women of drugging them and assaulting them over the course of the past few decades.
The decision to prosecute him came down just days before Pennsylvania’s 12-year statute of limitations for bringing charges was set to run out. He also admitted that in the 1970s he obtained Quaaludes, a powerful prescription sedative now banned in the United States, to give to women he wanted to have sex with.
According to the charging documents Wednesday, Constand reported multiple social interactions she had at the time with the 78-year-old Cosby, some of which involved what she described as forward and sexual advances toward her.
Cosby appeared briefly in a courtroom in Elkins Park, a suburb of Philadelphia, after the District Attorney’s Office charged him with “aggravated” sexual assault.
The charges are linked to allegations made by Constand, who settled a civil case against the comedian in 2006 for an undisclosed sum.
Earlier this month he filed a defamation suit against seven of his accusers and he has claimed women are trying to extract money from him.
Inside the tiny courthouse, Cosby said little as he surrendered his bent and wrinkled passport. As in all USA criminal cases, the burden would be on prosecutors to persuade a jury to find Cosby guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Cosby countersued, denying the allegations and saying the women were lying for financial gain.
The case against Cosby was opened earlier this year by the current district attorney, Risa Vetri Ferman, who will be sworn in as county judge on January 5.
“Shortly thereafter, the victim became incapacitated, and Cosby led her to a couch”.
Cosby said any sex and drug taking were always consensual.
The rules of evidence prohibit use of such uncharged misconduct, but there are many exceptions prosecutors use to bolster a case.
Attorney Gloria Allred holds up a reproduction of the court docket from Cosby’s arraignment today.
“I think that I’m a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever you want to call them”, he said in the excerpt, published by The New York Times. 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.
“It’s hard to believe that all these people were really victims”, Stauts said.
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During the night in question, the victim told police Cosby gave her what he said were three herbal pills and said they would help “take the edge off” for an emotionally taxed Constand.
