NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Jurors will be able to hear about the criminal past of one of the accusers in Bill Cosby's sex-assault retrial. Cosby lawyer Jaya Gupta told a judge Wednesday that Chelan Lasha's 2007 guilty plea for making a false report to Arizona law enforcement "bears on her veracity." The judge ...
Bill Cosby's attorneys sought to portray one of his accusers as an attention-seeker influenced by other women sharing their allegations against the comedian on day three of his criminal sexual assault retrial. “You've made it very clear you want to help Andrea Constand, haven't you?” defense attorney ...
She also later sent a Facebook message to Constand, the central accuser in Cosby's trial, telling her that she had her back. Asked about that message Wednesday, Thomas said, “I never would have believed I would be here.” Thomas also testified about flying to St. Louis in 1984 – for acting lessons ...
The first accuser testifying at Bill Cosby's retrial is telling jurors she wants to “see a serial rapist convicted.” Heidi Thomas stunned Cosby's lawyers and the courtroom with her answer during cross-examination Wednesday, fending off the insinuation that she'd do anything to help the comedian's chief ...
Gloria Allred, attorney for several of Cosby's accusers, three of whom are being called as witnesses in the retrial, described the defense's strategy as “a smear campaign.” Cosby, now 80 years old, faces three felony sexual-assault charges of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in his ...
Heidi Thomas responded to a defense lawyer's suggestion that she was trying to profit off her experiences. The first accuser testifying at Bill Cosby's retrial is telling jurors she wants to "see a serial rapist convicted." Heidi Thomas stunned Cosby's lawyers and the courtroom with her answer during ...
Cosby's lawyers have said her memories are tainted at best. Prosecutors are lining up the additional accusers to make the case that Cosby, once revered as "America's Dad," was a Hollywood predator who is only now facing a reckoning after allegedly assaulting Constand at his suburban Philadelphia ...
Prosecutors in Bill Cosby's sexual-assault retrial began trying to counter defense attorney Tom Mesereau's depiction of accuser Andrea Constand as a con artist by calling other accusers to the stand to testify that the comedian drugged and attacked them decades before his 2004 encounter with ...
Spokesman Andrew Wyatt cited Cosby's defense attorney's opening statement Tuesday blasting his accuser. He says that the truth will be shown in court and Cosby will be vindicated. The first of five additional accusers against Cosby is continuing her testimony in court Wednesday. Heidi Thomas told ...
The Latest: Cosby wants to raise accuser's criminal past ... Bill Cosby's lawyers are arguing in court at his sexual assault retrial that jurors should hear about an accuser's criminal past so they can fully assess her ... Lasha is one of five additional accusers who are being allowed to testify in the retrial.
