Prosecutors had asked the judge to allow as many as 19 additional accusers -- of dozens they have interviewed -- to testify with stories strikingly similar to allegations made by the primary accuser in the case, Andrea Constand. She has alleged that Cosby, 80, drugged and sexually assaulted her while ...
Prosecutors had asked the judge to allow as many as 19 additional accusers — of dozens they have interviewed — to testify with stories strikingly similar to allegations made by the primary accuser in the case, Andrea Constand. She has alleged that Cosby, 80, drugged and sexually assaulted her while ...
The Sopranos star Annabella Sciorra will star in the second series of Marvel's Luke Cage, it has been announced. The announcement comes five months after Sciorra accused producer Harvey Weinstein of raping her decades ago and just weeks after she appeared at the Oscars with fellow accusers ...
While the judge will instruct the jury about the legal purpose of the “prior bad acts” witnesses, the jurors themselves will determine how — or whether — the other accusers' testimony factors into their deliberations. After the deadlock in June, some jurors in that case said Johnson's testimony played little ...
While the judge will instruct the jury about the legal purpose of the “prior bad acts” witnesses, the jurors themselves will determine how — or whether — the other accusers' testimony factors into their deliberations. After the deadlock in June, some jurors in that case said Johnson's testimony played little ...
In Cosby's first trial last year, just one accuser, Kelley Johnson, was allowed to testify. The prosecution must identify the witnesses it intends to call by Monday. Last week, Montgomery County prosecutor Kevin Steele and his team of attorneys argued that 19 Cosby accusers should be allowed to testify, ...
Only one was permitted to testify in addition to Andrea Constand, the central accuser in the case, at Cosby's trial in June. That case — the only criminal charges against the entertainer despite allegations from dozens of women — ended in a mistrial. Thursday's ruling by Judge Steven T. O'Neill could ...
STROUDSBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday ruled that five other women who have accused comedian Bill Cosby of sexual assault over the years could testify at his retrial on charges of drugging and assaulting a former friend, giving prosecutors an early win. Montgomery County ...
A Pennsylvania judge says five other women who accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault can testify at his retrial on charges of drugging and assaulting a former friend. The prosecution was limited to calling one other accuser in the first trial in the Philadelphia suburb of Norristown, Pennsylvania. Thet trial ...
A Pennsylvania judge handed a major victory Thursday to prosecutors in the Bill Cosby sex-assault case, ruling that five previous accusers can be called as witnesses in an effort to establish a pattern of the star's alleged predatory behavior. The unusual decision by Judge Steven T. O'Neill did not ...
