On April 1, five days after Battilana had filed her complaint, Bashford conducted an interview with her. The next day, sources say, Vance's office sent its own investigators to Battilana's apartment. There, according to Bock, they aggressively questioned her roommates. Was Battilana a prostitute? Did she ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge agreed Thursday to let five additional Bill Cosby accusers testify at his April 2 retrial for an alleged 2004 sexual assault, giving prosecutors a chance to portray the man once known as “America's Dad” as a serial predator who made a sadistic habit of drugging and ...
Cosby's lawyers argued that permitting other accusers to testify would unfairly prejudice jurors, especially against the backdrop of the #MeToo movement, which has encouraged millions of women to share their experiences of sexual abuse or harassment. At his first trial, last summer, which ended in a ...
Now Cosby is to be retried on Constand's accusations starting April 2 in Norristown, Pa., with jury selection to begin March 29. While the judge will instruct the jury about the legal goal of the "prior bad acts" witnesses, the jurors themselves will determine how - or whether - the other accusers' testimony ...
Last year, Nelly was arrested following allegations of rape. He subsequently denied these allegations after a brief period of silence on the matter, with more women coming forward accusing him of sexual assault shortly after. When his accuser stated that she wouldn't testify against him, the case against ...
A former applicant to the RCMP says that he felt nervous in the moments after he says was invasively examined by a doctor that more than a 100 former Mounties and applicants say carried out inappropriate medical examinations and periodic health assessments. The accuser – a Nova Scotia man who ...
BALTIMORE • It is round one to prosecutors in the Bill Cosby sexassault case after a judge on Thursday ruled that five previous accusers can be called as witnesses in an effort to establish a pattern of alleged predatory behaviour. The decision by Judge Steven O'Neill stated that prosecutors can choose ...
“I think I have more respect for her than for our president,” one accuser told People. “I never thought I'd be rooting for a porn star, I think it's a more honest way to make a living than what he's doing.” Daniels is suing Trump to void a nondisclosure agreement blocking her from speaking out about the ...
Ron Bell of Tucson, Arizona, was arrested Wednesday as a fugitive from justice on a warrant issued in Cobb County 17 years ago. PIMA COUNTY (ARIZ.) SHERIFF. Posted: 3:22 p.m. Friday, March 16, 2018. The Arizona man who accused Georgia Tech men's basketball coach Josh Pastner of sexually ...
At his first trial, prosecutors sought to bring to the stand 13 additional accusers, not counting Constand, to prove to the jury a pattern of behavior. A Montgomery County judge allowed only one extra accuser, Kelley Johnson, to testify. The jury deadlocked, resulting in the judge declaring a mistrial.
