"Questioning an accuser is not shaming a victim," Bliss said. "Gut feelings are not rational decisions. Mob rule is not due process. And just as we have had horrible crimes in our history, we've also had horrible, horrible periods of time where emotion and hatred and fear overwhelmed us. Witch hunts ...
Bill Cosby's lawyers and prosecutors faced off in closing arguments Tuesday in his sexual assault retrial, clashing over whether the entertainer or his accuser lied about an alleged sexual encounter in 2004. Mr. Cosby's attorney, Thomas Mesereau, painted his accuser Andrea Constand as a con artist ...
Bliss called accuser Janice Baker-Kinney “a child of the '70s and '80s” who consensually slept with Cosby. “His being married never entered her mind,” Bliss said. “Where is her morality? Seriously ladies and gentlemen, where are her values?” Bliss referred to famed supermodel Janice Dickinson as “a ...
Washington D.C [USA], Apr 25 (ANI): Bill Cosby's defense lawyers, while delivering their closing statements on Tuesday, launched an attack on the main accuser and the five additional women accusers who took the stand against him. Cosby stands accused of drugging and molesting former Temple ...
The comedian's lawyers attacked the credibility of the women who testified against him at his sexual assault trial, singling out accuser Ms Constand during closing arguments on Tuesday. Defence lawyer Thomas Mesereau said Ms Constand made inconsistent statements. Mr Mesereau told the jury that ...
Prosecutor says Cosby used good-guy rep to harm women; defense called Cosby's accuser a “pathological liar” scheming for a big payday ... Defense attorneys Tom Mesereau and Kathleen Bliss said in their closing argument that chief accuser Andrea Constand consented to sexual activity, then ...
In a withering indictment of both the #MeToo movement against the abuse and sexual harassment of women and the numerous female witnesses who testified against Cosby, Bliss told jurors that "questioning an accuser is not shaming a victim." "Yes, we do have to deal with sexual assault," Bliss said in ...
Bill Cosby's defense delivered a fiery closing argument at his sex abuse trial Tuesday, calling chief accuser Andrea Constand a scheming liar motivated by money. "You're dealing with a pathological liar, members of the jury," Cosby lawyer Tom Mesereau said. "You are." Mesereau spoke as Cosby's ...
April 24 (UPI) -- Lawyers representing Bill Cosby in his sexual assault trial cast doubt on the nationwide #MeToo movement and called the actor's accuser a "pathological liar" Tuesday during closing arguments. Kathleen Bliss urged the jury of seven men and five women to acquit Cosby in "one of the ...
One accuser asked him through tears, “You remember, don't you, Mr. Cosby?” Cosby's lawyers, who contend the encounter was consensual, called a woman who said Constand spoke of framing a high-profile person to sue and extract a big settlement. None of that was allowed at Cosby's streamlined ...
