Did Bill Cosby rape Barbara Bowman, and possibly others?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

176. People assume that anyone who settles a case is deathly afraid of the truth coming out at trial.

Perhaps that's the case in some instances.

But people could also assume that a plaintiff who brings the suit might settle it quickly for some money rather than take it to trial and have their case fall apart and they get nothing.

Most often, however, the decision to settle a case out of court is a business one. The defendant pays now to avoid having to pay more legal fees later to continue to defend a case. Defending a case is not a cheap proposition.

You can draw inferences as to why Cosby settled the case rather than fight it at trial. You could also draw inferences as to why the Plaintiff in that case settled so quickly before any of the witnesses could be deposed and potentially increase the value of the case significantly if those depositions went well. I'm sure a lot of stuff was discussed on both sides behind the cloak of attorney-client privilege that we'll never know.

In the end, though, trying to draw inferences out of civil settlements is like trying to read tea leaves. Hence, I'm not going to do that.

I will say that your heavy handed attempts to strawman me in this thread are quite obnoxious and obvious.