Cosby's sex assault conviction goes before high-level court

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court questioned Tuesday whether Bill Cosby’s alleged history of intoxicating and sexually assaulting young women amounted to a signature crime pattern, given studies that show as many as half of all sexual assaults involve drugs or alcohol. Cosby, 83, hopes to overturn his 2018 sex assault conviction because the judge let prosecutors call five other accusers who said Cosby treated them the same way he did his victim, Andrea Constand. The defense said their testimony prejudiced the jury against the actor and comedian.

“That conduct you describe — the steps, the young women — there’s literature that says that’s common to 50% of these assaults — thousands of assaults — nationwide,” Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor said during oral arguments in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. “So how can that be a common scheme?”

The prosecutor, in response, offered more precise details about the relationships, saying Cosby used his fame and fortune to mentor the women and then took advantage of it.

“There was a built-in level of trust because of his status in the entertainment industry and because he held himself out as a public moralist,” said Assistant District Attorney Adrienne Jappe, of suburban Philadelphia’s Montgomery County, where Constand says she was assaulted at Cosby’s estate in 2004.



FILE - In this April 26, 2018 file photo, Bill Cosby, center, leaves the the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., after being convicted of drugging and molesting a woman. The actor has spent more than two years in prison since he was convicted of sexual assault in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. Now the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to hear his appeal of the conviction on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. The arguments will focus on the trial judge's decision to let five other accusers testify for the prosecution. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)


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[SharonAnn]

1. He's disgusting. His record of drugging women to rape them is well documented.

Whether others do it or not is irrelevant to his guilt.

[JudyM]

5. Exactly. How is the court even letting that argument go forward?!

Ok, it happens a lot. But he, personally, did it a lot. So it’s a pattern of his, regardless.

Oh and he should be socially stripped of the “comedian” moniker.

[NurseJackie]

6. The once-ubiquitous "Cosby Show" reruns are nowhere to be found...

... and the residuals that his former castmates were receiving have been stripped away also. I'm sure they're none to happy with him about that.

[marble falls]

3. It's the absolute refusal to admit the crime and face into it that is real disappointment.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Throw him back in there. He has no regret for what he did.

[Skittles]

7. he gets off on immobile women

he is one sick fuck