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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Allows Bill Cosby to Appeal 2018 Sexual Assault Conviction
Pennsylvania’s highest court has decided to give Bill Cosby another chance, about 6 months after his initial appeal request was denied. According to CBS Philadelphia, the court granted the 82-year-old an opportunity to appeal his 2018 sexual assault conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004. Back in December, the…
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Court Denies Bill Cosby’s Sexual Assault Conviction Appeal
Welp, it looks like Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction is ironclad. Cosby, 82, sought to appeal his 2018 conviction for the 2004 sexual assault of Andrea Constand. At the appeal hearings, which began in August, Cosby’s lawyers argued that five additional witnesses shouldn’t have been allowed to testify in the 2018 trial and that the…
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Appeal Hearing for Bill Cosby’s Sexual Assault Conviction Begins
Bill Cosby’s appellate team (Kristen Weisenburger and Barbara Zemlock) is hoping to throw out his sexual assault conviction at an appeal hearing scheduled for Monday, Aug. 12. On April 26, 2018, Cosby was found guilty of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004. According to Forbes,…
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Breaking: Bill Cosby Sentenced to 3 to 10 Years, Judge Rules Disgraced Comedian Is 'Sexually Violent Predator'
Bill Cosby, in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, was sentenced to three to 10 years for one count of sexual assault on Tuesday. Cosby will serve his sentence in a state prison. After being found guilty of sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand in April, Cosby faced a maximum of…
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Bill Cosby Will Likely Only Get a 3-Year Sentence For Drugging and Sexually Assaulting Andrea Constand
Bill Cosby’s sentencing hearing for the drugging and sexual assault of Andrea Constand began in a Pennsylvania courtroom Monday. Cosby was facing a maximum of 30 years in prison, but the judge in his case said he will likely be imprisoned for less than three years. Despite a psychologist from Pennsylvania’s Sexual Offenders Assessment Board…
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Cosby Accusers May Not Testify at Sentencing Hearing, Judge Says
On Monday, Bill Cosby is set to be sentenced in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas for drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University administrator Andrea Constand in 2004. Prosecutors were hoping to have additional women who have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct to testify at his sentencing hearing, but the judge in the…
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DA Asks That Bill Cosby Be Classified as a Sexually Violent Predator Before Sentencing
Bill Cosby won’t be sentenced until September after being found guilty of rape, but the Pennsylvania Sexual Offenders Assessment Board is recommending the disgraced comedian be classified as a sexually violent predator ahead of his sentencing. The 81-year-old convicted rapist has been under house arrest since being found guilty of indecent sexual assault against a…
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Andrea Constand Speaks: ‘I Forgave Bill Cosby for What He Did to Me’
The woman who was at the center of Bill Cosby’s recent trial, Andrea Constand, says that although it’s taken years, she’s forgiven Cosby for the 2004 drugging and indecent assault of which he was convicted in April. “I forgave Bill Cosby for what he did to me, “ she said on NBC’s Dateline on Friday…
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Bill Cosby to Be Sentenced in September
Bill Cosby is scheduled to be sentenced in September after being convicted of drugging and molesting former Temple University women’s basketball administrator Andrea Constand. Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault last month. Since the verdict was handed out, Cosby has been confined to the same suburban Philadelphia mansion where he…
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Camille Cosby Calls Husband’s Verdict ‘Mob Justice’
Last week, Bill Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault during his retrial on sexual assault and drugging charges in Pennsylvania, and the 80-year-old now faces up to 10 years in jail. But in today’s standing-by-her-man news, his wife, Camille Cosby, wrote a three-page statement about the guilty verdict her Quaalude-dropping…