Andrea Constand

Prosecutors set to defend Bill Cosby‘s sexual assault conviction in appeals court next month call the accusations from other women no coincidence, but “the culmination of a decades-long pattern of behavior.” Cosby, a long-beloved actor and comedian, was convicted in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. He turned 82 this month while serving […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The judge who presided over Bill Cosby‘s criminal case said he let five other accusers testify at the sex-assault trial because their accounts had “chilling similarities” that pointed to a “signature” crime. A jury last year convicted Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004, after hearing from her and […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The woman whose allegations that Bill Cosby drugged and assaulted her led to his conviction said the pills he gave her made her feel like a “limp noodle,” leaving her helpless to fend off the 2004 attack. Andrea Constand, 45, a former Temple University women’s basketball administrator, spoke to NBC News in […]

During the reading of prior testimonies by a judge for Bill Cosby‘s sex assault retrial, the lead lawyer on the comedian/actors case fell asleep. Mouth wide open, Tom Mesereau, the lead lawyer on the case took a snooze as Judge Steve O’Neil read pages of Cosby’s own testimony about his use of Quaaludes and sexual contact with Andrea Constant according to Page […]

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby‘s chief accuser could have been made woozy either by the cold and allergy medicine Benadryl or by quaaludes, a prosecution expert testified Thursday at the comedian’s sexual assault retrial. The identity of the pills that Cosby gave Andrea Constand before a 2004 sexual encounter at his home has been […]

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby‘s lawyer opened the comedian’s sexual assault retrial last week with a blistering attack on accuser Andrea Constand, telling jurors that evidence would show she’s nothing more than a con artist who framed the comedian and cashed in with a $3.4 million civil settlement. Now with Constand on the witness […]

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby‘s chief accuser took the witness stand Friday at his sexual assault retrial, declaring for a second jury that he knocked her out her with three blue pills and then sexually assaulted her at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. “I was weak. I was limp, and I just could […]

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby’s lawyers challenged the prosecution’s exclusion of a black woman from serving on the jury at his sexual assault retrial, alleging on Wednesday that the decision was made on the basis of her race. Prosecutors pushed back, noting two blacks have been already been seated on the panel that will […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby‘s lawyers don’t want jurors hearing about a January 2005 phone call in which accuser Andrea Constand says she first told her mom that the comedian had drugged and molested her about a year earlier. Cosby’s legal team argued in court papers on Tuesday that what was said during the call […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The start of Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial is being pushed back a few days to give both sides more time to wrangle over pretrial issues. Judge Steven O’Neill issued an order Monday moving the start of jury selection to April 2. It had been scheduled for March 29. O’Neill says he’ll […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A day after Hollywood’s first Oscars of the #MeToo era, Bill Cosby is going to court on Monday to stop some of his dozens of accusers from testifying at his April 2 sexual assault retrial. Cosby’s retooled defense team, led by former Michael Jackson lawyer Tom Mesereau, is due to clash with […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby doesn’t plan to testify when he goes on trial Monday on sexual assault charges, but the rambling, remarkable testimony he gave in the accuser’s lawsuit could still prove pivotal. The deposition from a decade-old sexual battery lawsuit, unsealed by a judge in 2015 at the request of The Associated Press, […]