PITTSBURGH (AP) — The panel that will decide Bill Cosby’s fate in his sex assault trial began to take shape Monday with the selection of five jurors, three white men and two white women. The search for 12 jurors and six alternates got off to a brisk star, even though a third of the initial […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a recorded phone call between Bill Cosby and the mother of his accuser can be used as evidence at his sexual assault trial next year. Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill issued the decision Friday. Cosby’s lawyers asked the judge earlier this month to block prosecutors from […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors hoping to paint actor Bill Cosby as a serial predator at his upcoming sexual assault trial sought Tuesday to put on testimony from 13 other women who say Cosby gave them quaaludes, other drugs or alcohol before molesting them. The criminal case against the 79-year-old entertainer involves a single […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday rejected Bill Cosby‘s effort to reseal his deposition testimony about extramarital affairs, prescription sedatives and payments to women, saying the documents are now a matter of public knowledge. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled that the comedian’s appeal was moot. “The contents […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lawyers for the woman Bill Cosby is charged with sexually assaulting in 2004 say his request to have his attorney attend her deposition in a Pennsylvania civil case is “a continuation of his campaign to harass and intimidate.” Andrea Constand asked the court last week to deny Cosby’s motion to have his […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby‘s lawyers want a Pennsylvania judge to suppress taped phones calls he had with his accuser’s mother as the defense starts trying to chip away at the trial evidence. The actor and comedian is accused of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. She told her mother a year later, prompting […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby has dropped a lawsuit that demanded the accuser in his criminal case repay the money from their confidential 2006 court settlement. Cosby had sued Andrea Constand for breach of contract for speaking to police who reopened the criminal investigation last year. His lawyers argued that her police statements, along with […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Newly public police records in Bill Cosby‘s criminal sex-assault case show his accuser planned to confront him weeks after their 2004 encounter but backed off when he got too close to her. Andrea Constand told police she “just wanted to confront him about it and ask some questions” when she returned to […]
A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday found enough evidence to proceed with the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on Bill Cosby‘s preliminary hearing in his Pennsylvania sex-assault case (all times local): 1 p.m. Bill Cosby has been ordered to stand trial in the lone criminal case lodged amid dozens of accusations that he molested women. The 78-year-old actor faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby faces a preliminary hearing Tuesday to determine if his criminal sex-assault case in suburban Philadelphia goes to trial. Prosecutors had declined to charge Cosby over Andrea Constand‘s complaint in 2005, but arrested him in December after his explosive deposition in the woman’s lawsuit became public. In the testimony given in […]
BOSTON (AP) — The wife of Bill Cosby said she never read a deposition in which her husband acknowledged he gave sedatives to women he was planning to have sex with, according to an excerpt of her testimony in a defamation lawsuit against her husband. Camille Cosby testified last month in the civil case filed […]
