Pennsylvania Supreme Court Agrees To Review Bill Cosby's Conviction
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will review the case that resulted in Bill Cosby's conviction for aggravated indecent assault. The comedian was sentenced to three to ten years in prison in September 2018 after being found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand, a director of operations for Temple University women's basketball team.
Cosby, 82, had petitioned the court to review the case claiming that his due process rights were violated. The court will determine if the allegations of drugging and sexual misconduct presented by five women should have been accepted as evidence. It will also consider whether Cosby should have been tried since he had consented to be deposed in Constand's civil suit against him. He had reached an agreement with the Montgomery County District Attorney that he would not be prosecuted in exchange for his testimony.
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In his deposition, Cosby admitted to drugging women before having sex with them. The comedian was tried twice on charges of drugging and raping a woman at his Pennsylvania home in January 2004. More than 60 women have accused the comedian of either attempted sexual assault, rape, drug-facilitated sexual assault, sexual battery, child sexual abuse, or sexual misconduct. He has denied all these charges and the statute of limitations in most cases has expired.
Constand, who lives in Canada, posted a tweet in which she "respectfully" asked the court to "consider the enormous prospect of putting my perpetrator back into the community after being labeled a convicted sexually violent predator."
Meanwhile, Camille Cosby, the comedian’s wife, gave an interview this week in which she criticized the #MeToo movement and defended her husband against the allegations of rape and assault. The 76-year-old producer and philanthropist told ABC News Prime anchor Linsey Davis that her husband is doing well and that they speak every single day. She admits though that she hasn’t visited her husband in prison because she doesn’t want to see him in that environment.
"Gender has never, ever equated with truth," she said. "So they need to clean up their acts. All of us, as women, who have not participated in anything nefarious, we know how women can lie. We know they can do the same things that men do -- that some men do. Because there are good men and bad men, there are good women and bad women."
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