United States comedian Bill Cosby appeared in a Pennsylvania court to face a sexual assault charge over a 2004 incident – the first criminal charge filed against him after dozens of women claimed abuse.
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A lawyer for Bill Cosby went on the attack yesterday, slamming a Pennsylvania prosecutor’s sexual assault prosecution of the embattled comedian as politically motivated – but one expert says that doesn’t mean the case is unfounded.
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She said everything will be made clear once they are allowed to speak.
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Taking cognisance of “the offence as complained of”, the court listed the matter for January 5, next year . We will go and trial will begin. “By filing defamation case, he has hurt himself”, Kejriwal added.
The famed comedian has maintained his innocence since he was accused by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand of sexual assault more than 10 years ago.
“Upon examination of all of the evidence, today we are able to seek justice on behalf of Mr. Cosby’s victim”, Montgomery County District Attorney-elect Kevin Steele said in a news conference Wednesday.
“The vast majority of the public believes that all of these other alleged victims are people who suffered exactly the same fate that his woman, Andrea Constand, said she suffered, even though the details may be different…the devil is in the details here”, Klieman explained.
Cosby will not return to court until January 14, but is now out on a $1 million bail.
Prosecutors reopened the case over the summer after damaging testimony from Constand’s lawsuit against Cosby was unsealed by a judge at the request of The Associated Press.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles district attorney is reviewing an investigation of Cosby’s behavior conductd by the local police department in 2008, meaning the case falls within the statute of limitations.
At that point, “reopening this case was not a question”.
“If you look at the deposition itself then you’ll see there’s no admission of criminal wrongdoing with respect to Mr. Cosby”, his lawyer said. He denied giving women drugs without their knowledge and said he had used the now-banned sedative “the same as a person would say, ‘Have a drink'”.
Cosby walked into a Pennsylvania court on Wednesday and stumbled along the way before facing a judge. She said that on one occasion in 2004, he gave her pills and wine, which made her unresponsive and unable to move, allegedly enabling him to sexually assault her. He said Constand was not upset when she left.
When Constand first met Cosby, she was the director of operations for Temple’s women’s basketball team.
In his deposition, Cosby said he gave Constand three half-pills of Benadryl for stress, telling her only that they were her “friends”. “He wants you to go up to his room.’ I said to them, ‘Come with me, I don’t want to go up there alone” and when we went up there he was so pissed that I brought these guys with me. “If I believed in hell Bill Cosby would be going there”.
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This may still be a tough case to prove, but at the very least, we no longer have to listen to his attorneys repeat that he’s never been criminally charged. “I am not stopped”, Cosby testified. Cosby also apologized and offered to pay for Constand’s therapy, prosecutors say.
