Bill Cosby’s lawyers are still demanding he be released from prison, or at the very least, have his 3 to 10-year prison stint reduced. In a brand new court filing, former Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor confirmed that the civil depositions used to convict Cosby should never have been used, per blackpressusa.com. The comedian also agreed […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby‘s lawyers hope to prescreen potential jurors to weed out those with opinions about the sex-assault case before jury selection begins in person. A defense motion filed Monday says the “inflammatory” worldwide coverage of the case has probably left some potential jurors with opinions about the actor’s guilt or innocence. They […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby‘s lawyers have asked the state Supreme Court for another chance to have his criminal sexual-assault case thrown out. The defense argued that the current district attorney cannot go back on the word of a predecessor who has said he promised Cosby wouldn’t be charged in the case. The defense said […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pittsburgh-area woman is appealing a court decision that threw out her defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby. Renita Hill says Cosby and his agents defamed her when they denied that the actor drugged and molested his accusers. The 48-year-old Hill says that Cosby, his wife and lawyer painted her as a “liar” […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The accuser in Bill Cosby‘s criminal sexual assault case in Pennsylvania wants a judge to void the secrecy clause surrounding their 2006 settlement since each side accuses the other of violating the pact. A hearing Friday in federal court is set to weigh that issue and the lawsuit Cosby filed against accuser […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Bill Cosby‘s effort to put a Massachusetts defamation lawsuit against him on hold until his Pennsylvania criminal case is resolved has been partially granted. A U.S. District Court judge says discovery addressed to Cosby in the Massachusetts case is stayed but the case isn’t stayed in any other respect. He says […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Janice Dickinson‘s defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby should move forward, a judge ruled Tuesday, saying a trial can determine the truthfulness of the model’s claims that the comedian raped her in 1982. A jury can decide the credibility of Dickinson’s allegations and whether a statement by Cosby’s former lawyer branding her […]
On the Monday, March 7 edition of “The Real,” actor and musician Malcolm-Jamal Warner stops by and compares Bill Cosby and his legal troubles with Roman Polanski and Woody Allen, who just happen to be two white guys with sex-with-minors issues that Hollywood and the public, to a large extent, still supports. Plus, the ladies celebrate one […]
An L.A. Superior Court judge today denied Bill Cosby’s attempt to shut down part of Janice Dickinson’s defamation lawsuit against him, stemming from his alleged 1982 drugging and sexual assault of the former supermodel. “The court is requesting the parties to submit further briefing,” said Judge Debre Weintraub Monday morning, according to Deadline.com. At the […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby has filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against a woman whose 2005 sexual-assault accusation led to his recent arrest. The lawsuit, filed a day before a key hearing in the criminal case against Cosby, names accuser Andrea Constand, her lawyer, her mother and the publisher of the National Enquirer. The lawsuit remained […]
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled Thursday that Bill Cosby‘s wife must give a deposition in a defamation lawsuit against the comedian, but said she can refuse to answer questions about private marital conversations. In the lawsuit, seven women claim Cosby defamed them by branding them as liars after they went public […]
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — A model has dropped her lawsuit accusing Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually abusing her at the Playboy Mansion in 2008. Federal court records show Chloe Goins dismissed her lawsuit on Tuesday without explanation. Her filing in Los Angeles was done in a way that would allow it to be […]
