Having shed most of his counsel last month, Cosby had only defense attorney Brian McMonagle by his side as official representation.
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In a motion filed Tuesday, Pennsylvania prosecutors asked the judge to let 13 women beyond Constand testify to show a pattern of behavior.
Cosby’s eyes appeared less milky and he seemed more engaged and animated as he spoke with his legal team. The woman, a restaurant worker in the San Francisco area, said she lost consciousness after Cosby poured her a glass of wine and gave her a headache pill and woke up wearing only her underwear. Some were in their teens or early 20s.
Outside the courthouse, Cosby’s lawyers argued that the African-American star is a victim of racism. However, a judge this year found he was never granted immunity.
The women who accuse him of sexual misconduct for almost that long say the charges were a long time coming. They complained, reports NBC News, that Bill Cosby has been subjected to a “barrage” of new accusers and sexual assault accusations, accusations which have been made public, while Bill Cosby’s supporters have been silenced and suppressed by the media. We now have 13 unnamed [alleged victims].
During the alleged January 17, 2005, phone conversation, Cosby, who initiated the call from California, “apparently suspected that Mrs. Constand was recording the call” and questioned her about “a persistent beeping” he heard on the phone, according to Steele.
Temple Employee, says she visited Cosby to ask for career advice after meeting him while he was on the Temple Board of Trustees.
Each alleged victim claims that she was sexually assaulted by Cosby after being drugged. She later said she was in and out of consciousness. “Instead, it is an issue of whether or not Mr. Cosby has committed acts of gender sexual violence”.
Ridgeway Whitedeer said she was a 20-something actress when the William Morris Agency sent her to audition for one of her first film roles in Hollywood. “I didn’t have a chance”, she said Tuesday. And I don’t feel her say anything. “I am not stopped”.
Canadian law allows calls to be legally recorded with only one party consenting, the motion says.
When she first stepped forward previous year, Ridgeway Whitedeer said Cosby forced her to perform oral sex on him.
“I didn’t want to talk about, ‘What did you give her?'” he said in the deposition. In his deposition, he later said he feared sounding like “a dirty old man” on the call.
But Steele maintained the recording made by Constand’s mother did not violate Pennsylvania’s Wiretap and Surveillance Act, which prohibits interception of oral communications believed to be private.
If the prosecution is allowed to call the other women as witnesses, it would bring to a legal forum what until now has played out predominantly in the media.
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Pennsylvania Judge Steven O’Neill set the tentative trial date at a preliminary hearing Tuesday.
