Bill Cosby returns free (albeit for technical errors)
Bill Cosby is escorted out of the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, Tuesday Sept. 25, 2018, in Eagleville, Pa., Following his sentencing to three-to-10-year prison sentence for sexual assault. (AP Photo / Jacqueline Larma)
Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction was overturned Wednesday by the Pennsylvania High Court after it found that a deal with a previous prosecutor had prevented him from being indicted in the case. So the second indictment was impossible.
Cosby, 83, was held for more than two years with a 3 to 10 year sentence in a state prison near Philadelphia. When he was convicted, he had sworn to serve all 10 years rather than admit remorse over a 2004 meeting with prosecutor Andrea Constand, whom he invited into a property he owns in Pennsylvania, then drugged and sexually assaulted her.
The former comedian and actor has been charged with rape, drug use, sexual beatings, child sexual abuse and sexual misconduct dating back to the mid-1960s.
He was charged in late 2015 when a prosecutor armed with recent, non-secret evidence arrested him days before the 12-year statute of limitations expired.
The trial judge had only allowed one other prosecutor to testify at Cosby's first trial, when the jury was stalled. However, he then allowed five other accusers to testify at the retrial about their experiences with Cosby in the 1980s.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said testimony tainted the trial, even though a lower appeals court had seen fit to show a distinctive pattern of drugs and harassment of women. -AP
So, because five other women were allowed to testify about Cosby's model of sexual predation, the trial was deemed "tainted" due to a deal with prosecutor Bruce Castor (who later represented Donald Trump during the impeachment. ).
Cosby was denied probation in May after refusing to participate in sex crime programs while in state prison – and has long claimed that he would not follow them, despite having committed the crime. Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt called the decision "frightening".
Cosby, a revolutionary black actor who grew up in Philadelphia public housing, amassed an estimated $ 400 million fortune during his 50 years in the entertainment industry. Casa Cosby has been on TV all over the world for many, many years.
He fell out of favor in his later years while teaching the black community about family values. Now the prosecutors could appeal.
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