Accuser Says Bill Cosby Should Admit He Sexually Assaulted Women – and Apologize

[Rolex]

The emotional stories of women who say they were sexually assaulted more than a decade ago by Bill Cosby prompted California state lawmakers to approve a bill to eliminate the state's 10-year limit on filing rape and related charges. On Wednesday, Gov.

Jerry Brown announced that he has approved the legislation to revoke that limitation, the APreports. Beginning next year, the bill will end the statute of limitations in certain rape and child molestation cases. It will also end the time limit on older cases in which the statute of limitations has not yet expired.

The new law, SB813, will not, however, help women who made allegations against Cosby dating back more than 10 years, including some from the 1960s.

California lawmakers sent the statute of limitations bill to Brown without a single dissenting vote.

The bill's signing "tells every rape and sexual assault victim in California that they matter and that, regardless of when they are ready to come forward, they will always have an opportunity to seek justice in a court of law," State Sen. Connie Leyva, D-Chino, said in a statement.

"Rapists should never be able to evade legal consequences simply because an arbitrary time limit has expired."

Seventeen other states already have no statute of limitations on rape, according to the California Women's Law Center. Cosby has repeatedly denied the sex abuse allegations made by dozens of women nationwide. He is facing just one criminal case stemming from sex abuse. A trial is set to begin in June in Pennsylvania.

 

[Oilcan]

Bill Cosby’s lawyers filed a motion Tuesday to prevent jurors at his upcoming sex assault trial from hearing the word quaaludes, among other things.

“The testimony about quaaludes and the alleged provision of money or educational funds is quintessentially the kind of evidence that causes ‘unfair prejudice,'” Cosby’s lawyers wrote in advance of a hearing on the issue Monday.

 

[cristycurves]

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[Fuggedabouditt]

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I'll AIG is scrambling to find a loophole to cancel his policy.

 

[Boing]

Bill Cosby Rape Trial: Rivaling O.J., Accuser Testifying This Week | Deadline

 

[Jessica Rain]

This is nuts

 

[Gnaw]

Almost over. A 50 to 50 split a few hours ago. Judge threw them back into their room.

lol

 

[Chandler]

It's a mistrial but " Prosecutors said they will retry him on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, a charge that carries 10 years in prison."

Bill Cosby Sexual Assault Trial Ends in Mistrial - NBC News

 

[Dier]

Found guilty and facing 30 years in jail.

 

[Vongolo]

 

[Wazzap]

Bill Cosby did not take his conviction well on Thursday. District Attorney Kevin Steele argued that Cosby, who was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault, should be taken into custody immediately, because he has a private plane and could flee, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Cosby then lashed out at the prosecutor, saying, “He doesn’t have a plane, you asshole.” The Hollywood Reported that when Steele attempted to revoke his bail, Cosby shouted: “I'm sick of him!” The judge denied Steele’s request, but ordered Cosby to remain in the state. The disgraced comedian faces up to 30 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004.

 

[Madman]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/103420668/us-comedian-bill-cosby-found-guilty-in-sexual-assault-case-retrial

Cosby's new defence team, led by Michael Jackson lawyer Tom Mesereau, launched a highly aggressive attack on Constand and the other women.
Their star witness, a longtime Temple employee, testified that Constand once spoke of setting up a prominent person and suing. Constand sued Cosby after prosecutors initially declined to file charges, settling with him for nearly US$3.4 million (NZ$5 million) over a decade ago.
"You're dealing with a pathological liar," Mesereau told the jury.
His colleague on the defence team, Katheen Bliss, derided the other accusers as home-wreckers and suggested they made up their stories in a bid for money and fame.
But Cosby himself had long ago confirmed sordid revelations about drugs and extramarital sex.
In a deposition he gave over a decade ago as part of Constand's lawsuit, Cosby acknowledged he had obtained quaaludes to give to women he wanted to have sex with, "the same as a person would say, 'Have a drink."' The sedative was a popular party drug before the US banned it more than 30 years ago.
Cosby also acknowledged giving pills to Constand before their sexual encounter. But he identified them as the over-the-counter cold and allergy medicine Benadryl and insisted they were meant to help her relax.
The entertainer broke racial barriers as the first black actor to star in a network show, I Spy, in the 1960s. He created the top-ranked Cosby Show two decades later. He also found success with his Fat Albert animated TV show and served as pitchman for Jello-O pudding.
Later in his career, he attracted controversy for lecturing about social dysfunction in poor black neighbourhoods, railing against young people stealing things and wearing baggy pants.
It was Cosby's reputation as a public moralist that prompted a federal judge, acting in response to a request from The Associated Press, to unseal portions of the deposition.
Its release helped destroy the Cosby Show star's career and good-guy image. It also prompted authorities to reopen the criminal investigation, and he was charged in late 2015.

 

[demien3k5]

Comes down to approach.

When your date says "look, either we fuckin', or I'm fuckin." you know shit's about to turn sideways.

Don't touch that pill he be offerin' y'all.

 

[Siodd]

When Bill Cosby was producing The Cosby Show, he hired psychiatrist Dr. Alvin Francis Poussaint to consult on the script and make sure that there were no negative stereotypes that portrayed African-Americans in a bad light. When he was done filming, he’d unwind by drugging women and raping them while they were unconscious.

Today, after his last trial ended in a mistrial, Bill Cosby actually faces some consequences for his actions after being found guilty of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. Cosby was actually found guilty of three different offenses: penetration with lack of consent, penetration while unconscious, and penetration after administering an intoxicant. Each offense is a felony punishable by up to ten years in prison.

After the verdict, the prosecution asked that Cosby’s bail be revoked, saying that because he had a private plane he could go anywhere. This lead an angry Cosby to yell “He doesn’t have a private plane, you asshole!” The judge declined to rescind Cosby’s bail, but made him surrender his passport and instructed him to stay at his home until sentencing.

What happens to Cosby now is entirely at the discretion of the judge. Mandatory minimum sentences were found to be unconstitutional, so Cosby could be looking at spending the next 30 years in prison or he could get probation or a suspended sentence and not spend a day in prison.

Cosby will also probably not report to prison until after the appeals process is over, something the 80-year-old Cosby can probably just drag out until he’s dead.

What this means, regardless of what Cosby’s sentence ends up being, is that his victims get some kind of closure. They were heard and believed, and no one can take that away from them no matter what punishment Cosby eventually gets.

 

[Vongolo]

Well Bill, you should've thought about that before abusing them.

'Sexually Violent Predator' Label Will Ruin Bill Cosby's Reputation, Attorney Says

 

[Willy]

Guilty and facing between 3 to 10 years.

 

[BBdwye]

Guilty and facing between 3 to 10 years.

After good behaviour he will serve 6 months. But don't you wonder why the Toronto woman that was "raped" in 2004 waited so many years to share her story?.