Montgomery Country District Attorney Kevin Steele is trying Cosby for the alleged sexual assault of former Temple basketball player Andrea Constand in 2004 at the comedian’s home.
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One starlet said she lost consciousness after Cosby poured her a few glasses of Champagne and woke up naked and sore.
The defense is expected to vehemently oppose such testimony.
In a motion filed on Tuesday by Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, prosecutors write, “Since the victim disclosed this drug-facilitated assault to the police, other women, suffering almost identical trauma at the hands of the defendant came forward”.
Cosby was arrested on December 30, 2016, and has fought to clear his name ever since.
Ms Constand has contended that Mr Cosby rendered her incapacitated and molested her.
Meanwhile, prosecutors are planning to call 13 other alleged victims to testify during the trial to try and establish a pattern of behaviour, reports People.com. Cosby had called her from California.
“No, no I have a parrot”, Gianna Constand responded.
Cosby told police he gave her Benadryl – an over-the-counter medicine used for allergies and insomnia – and insisted that any sexual relations with Constand were consensual. In his deposition, he later said he feared sounding like “a dirty old man” on the call. Angela Agrusa of Liner LLP also will handle the civil defamation suits filed in several states by accusers who say they were defamed when Cosby or his agents denied their accounts. He also admitted giving other women drugs to get their consent to have sex with him.
Cosby’s lawyers also told Judge O’Neill that their client is blind. O’Neill offered whatever accommodations he might need at trial, but the defense didn’t immediately ask for any.
Bill Cosby arrived at court with a wide smile on his face today for a hearing in which a date for his sex assault trial was set. Cosby has replaced one Los Angeles law firm with another on his defense team, the second time he has done so in a year. The woman says she soon lost consciousness and awoke naked as Cosby forced his penis into her mouth.
Cosby is known for his stand-up comedy routines focusing on his Philadelphia childhood and growing up in a middle class African-American family.
It followed a stream of allegations by more than 50 women going back decades.
“I know this is a beep, ‘ Cosby said”.
“The time has come to shine a spotlight on the trampling of Mr. Cosby’s civil rights”.
Numerous accusers, including Constand, are white.
She said Mr Cosby gave her three blue pills which made her legs feel “like jelly” and that he then began to touch her inappropriately.
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She said the case is not about racial bias but rather about whether Cosby “has committed acts of gender sexual violence”.
