Lawyer: Cosby Never 'Bound' Or 'Gagged' Women To Stop Them From Coming Forward

[DonViejo]

Bill Cosby's lawyer, Monique Pressley, was in full damage control mode during her appearance Friday on HuffPost Live with Marc Lamont Hill, following the publication of New York magazine's viral cover featuring the photos of 35 women who have publicly accused the comedian of rape and/or sexual assault.

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Pressley told Hill:

I believe people are innocent until they’re proven guilty. And if you can’t prove them guilty in a court through prosecution then you don’t get the option of persecution instead. I don’t think that 10, 20, 30, 40 years later people get to decide to come forward when there is no opportunity – not just for Mr. Cosby to offer a defense for a criminal prosecution – there’s no opportunity for an alleged victim, an accuser, to prove up what actually happened.

She said women have a "responsibility" to come forward as soon as possible if they want justice they seek and deserve. Pressley said:

The only way for a woman to get the justice that she seeks — and that, if her allegation is true, that she deserves — is to come forward [soon after the crime]. And even if the reasons that the women did not do that are legitimate ones, what cannot happen – in my opinion, in the United States – is that 40 years later there is a persecution tantamount to a witch hunt where there was no prosecution timely and there was no civil suit timely.

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Full article + video of interview:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cosby-pressley-lawyer--3

[HFRN]

1. notice he didnt say anything about 'choked' nt

[Johonny]

2. Most people can say they Never 'Bound' Or 'Gagged' Women (full stop)

the conditional modifier... ouch.

[Arkana]

3. No, he just drugged and then sexually exploited them.

I want to take this opportunity to say fuck you, Bill Cosby. You were the first stand-up comedian I ever listened to. I hate the fact that I laughed at your jokes--and most of all I hate the fact that I listened to you so many times I had your routines practically memorized.

I hate you for being the guy who got me introduced to Ron White, Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Bill Hicks, and Brian Posehn.

Fuck you for being a rapey, degenerate piece of Uncle Tom shit.

[UTUSN]

4. uh i think "immobilizing" is the salient point, counselor.