The judge allowed one other accuser to testify in Cosby's first trial. In general, a defendant's history is not admissible as evidence that he or she committed a particular crime. But the Cosby case is an exception, prosecutors argued, because the way he abused the 19 women was repetitive and consistent.
A voicemail that Adrienne Lawrence says she's never heard and Jemele Hill says does not exist is suddenly at the center of a lawsuit. Lawrence, the former ESPN anchor who filed a discrimination suit against her ex-employers Sunday, issued a challenge Monday night to Hill, asking her to let the world ...
Before Cosby's first trial, O'Neill blocked prosecutors from calling 12 of the 13 past accusers they'd hope to have as witnesses. But this time around prosecutors have put forth half-a-dozen additional possible past-accuser witnesses, and presented new legal arguments for their place in the trial.
Bill Cosby's lawyers fought Tuesday to block a parade of women from testifying against him at his upcoming sexual assault retrial, saying the accusers are peddling “ancient allegations” that would prejudice the jury against the 80-year-old comedian. At the same time, they argued jurors should hear ...
Stung by a hung jury the first time around, prosecutors are pushing to widen the scope of Cosby's April retrial to cast him as one of the biggest serial predators in a Hollywood suddenly aware of sexual misconduct in the #MeToo era. NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby's lawyers fought Tuesday to block a ...
Bill Cosby's lawyers fought Tuesday (March 6) to block a parade of women from testifying against him at his upcoming sexual assault retrial, saying the accusers are peddling “ancient allegations” that would prejudice the jury against the 80-year-old comedian. At the same time, they argued jurors should ...
After Cosby's first trial ended in a mistrial last June, Steele sought a retrial and now is asking O'Neill to reconsider his earlier ruling and allow 19 other accusers to testify. Steele and Jappe argued a decision by a state court in a homicide case, “that was decided after” O'Neill's February 2017 ruling, ...
NORRISTOWN, PA.—For years, Bill Cosby has tried to portray Andrea Constand as his ex-lover—not a victim of sexual assault. The comedian and his attorneys have painted the former college basketball star and Temple University women's basketball team official as confused and mendacious, a lost ...
Will the “MeToo” movement sink Bill Cosby at his new trial? That's what his attorneys fear, at least if the court lets 19 other accusers testify. “The purpose and obvious effect would just be to enrage the jury, this time with more prejudicial impact from what goes on outside the courtroom from the Me Too ...
Attorneys for Bill Cosby argue that allowing even one additional accuser to testify against him would unfairly prejudice a jury in his retrial on sexual assault charges. Prosecutors have asked the court to allow up to 19 additional accusers to be permitted to testify at his retrial. “It is so easy to judge the ...
