The prosecution was limited to calling one other accuser in the first trial in the Philadelphia suburb of Norristown, Pennsylvania. It ended in June with a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict following six days of deliberations. Constand, a former administrator of the women's basketball ...
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Pa. -- A judge has agreed to let five additional accusers of Bill Cosby testify at his sexual assault retrial, scheduled to begin next month. Judge Steven O'Neill's ruling Thursday is a victory for prosecutors looking to portray the 80-year-old Cosby as one of Hollywood's biggest ...
“The impact on a jury of having just one other accuser is far less dramatic than having five other accusers tell a similar story.” Cosby stands accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, whom he met through Temple University's basketball program, in his Cheltenham home in 2004.
STROUDSBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - Five women who have accused comedian Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting them will be allowed to testify at his upcoming retrial on charges of sexually assaulting a former friend, a Pennsylvania judge ruled Thursday, in a victory for prosecutors. The decision by ...
The decision means that five more accusers, who have said Mr. Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted them, will be able to tell their accounts alongside the woman whose allegations are at the center of the case, Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee who says Mr. Cosby drugged and ...
A judge has agreed to let five additional accusers of Bill Cosby testify at his April 2 sexual assault retrial. Judge Steven O'Neill's ruling ... O'Neill limited prosecutors at Cosby's first trial last year to calling just the 2004 accuser and a woman who alleged a 1990s assault. That trial ended in a hung jury.
More of Bill Cosby's sexual assault accusers will be permitted to testify against him next month, according to a new report. Judge Steve O'Neill determined Thursday that five women will be allowed to take the witness stand and share their allegations against the scandal-plagued comedian with the jury, ...
The prosecution wanted to put 19 past accusers on the stand to show an alleged pattern that led up to the incident involving Constand. It says the accusers were much younger and they all had a mentorship type of relationship with Cosby. They were all invited by Cosby to a setting he controlled where ...
At last June's trial, which ended with a hung jury, only one woman was permitted to testify in addition to Andrea Constand, the central accuser. But the ruling by Judge Steven T. O'Neill could transform the April 2 retrial from a he-said-she-said case to one about a pattern of sexual misconduct spanning ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A judge has agreed to let five additional accusers of Bill Cosby testify at his April 2 sexual assault retrial. Judge Steven O'Neill's ruling Thursday is a victory for prosecutors looking to portray the 80-year-old Cosby as one of Hollywood's biggest serial predators. Prosecutors contend ...
