The entire proceeding lasted for several minutes, and Cosby, walking with a cane, emerged from the courthouse to climb back into the black sport utility vehicle that brought him to the hearing and was driven away.
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In a press conference earlier today, officials announced their intention to charge the actor with aggravated indecent assault, a felony charge of the first degree. Steele urged them to come forward as well. The accusation stems from early 2004, when the comedian drugged and sexually violated Andrea Constand, who used to be an employee at Temple University, at his home in Philadelphia.
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Attorney Enrique Latoison said he believes Cosby’s attorneys will try to have incriminating testimony the comedian gave at a deposition in a civil case related to the alleged indecent assault of Andrea Constand thrown out. He said Constand was not upset when she left.
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A previous district attorney declined to charge Cosby in 2005.
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”.
More than 50 women have already publicly claimed abuse by Cosby, but his attorneys have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing by the comedian, who has gone from megastar to pariah in the face of the allegations, which span four decades.
He claims she had groped her in return, but she ultimately rejected him when he tried to have continued sexual contact.
“More than two decades and 60 accusers after women first called Bill Cosby a rapist and sex abuser, a prosecutor will try to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the crimes of which the fallen icon has long since been convicted in the court of public opinion”, the editorial said. “They read where Cosby said he penetrated her”, attorney Eric Guster told CNN. Constand maintains she was semi-conscious after he gave her pills he said would relax her.
A 2005 investigation into Cosby led him to reveal in a deposition that he purchased Quaaludes with the intent to give to women. But that prosecutor lost his re-election bid last month to Steele, who made pursuing charges against Cosby an issue in his campaign.
They reopened the case armed with new evidence this year that includes Cosby’s deposition from the woman’s civil lawsuit.
Despite her impairments, Constand said she was aware Cosby was groping her and performing sex acts, but she was “paralysed” and unable to stop him. By phone Thomas said she would love to go to Philadelphia and be in court if there is a trial. “I want you to apologize for taking advantage of me”, she said. He also admitted that he had not told Constand “on that night or anytime thereafter, the true identity of the pills”.
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The AP generally does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they agree to have their names published, as Constand has done.
