Bill Cosby trial

  Bill Cosby mugshot NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on Bill Cosby’s sentencing hearing (all times local): 2 p.m. Bill Cosby has been sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home. Judge Steven O’Neill sentenced Cosby on Tuesday, five months after his […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jury selection is set to get underway in Bill Cosby‘s sexual assault retrial in a cultural landscape changed by the #MeToo movement, posing new challenges for both the defense and the prosecution. Experts say the movement could cut both ways for the comedian, making some potential jurors more hostile toward him and […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A spokeswoman for Bill Cosby says the outcry over his plan to hold town hall meetings is misguided. In a CNN interview, Ebonee Benson said the meetings are intended to restore Cosby’s legacy, not discuss sexual assault. Benson’s remarks contrasted with comments she and colleague Andrew Wyatt made last week in […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Cosby will organize a series of town hall meetings to help educate young people about problems their misbehavior could create, a spokesman for Cosby said Thursday. Cosby is eager to get back to work following a deadlocked jury and mistrial in his sexual assault trial, spokesman Andrew Wyatt told Birmingham, […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Cosby will organize a series of town hall meetings to help educate young people about problems their misbehavior could create, a spokesman for Cosby said Thursday. Cosby is eager to get back to work following a deadlocked jury and mistrial in his sexual assault trial, spokesman Andrew Wyatt told Birmingham, […]

Bill Cosby chose fellow comedians Joe Torry and Lewis Dix as his personal escorts for Day 4 of his sexual assault trial in Pennsylvania. On Wednesday, actress Sheila Frazier and her hairstylist husband, John Atchison, showed up with the comedian. Earlier in the week, it was his TV daughter Keshia Knight-Pulliam on his arm. Curiously […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bill Cosby’s lawyers accused Pennsylvania prosecutors of trying to “systematically” keep blacks off the jury after prosecutors used their strikes to keep two black women off the panel. Judge Steven O’Neill for now rejected the argument after prosecutors said the second woman was a former detective who had sued Pittsburgh and may have […]

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 […]

The judge in Bill Cosby’s criminal sex assault case expects the trial to last about two weeks and hopes to seat a jury before the proceeding opens June 5 in suburban Philadelphia, according to The Hollywood Reporter. During the pretrial hearing Monday (April 3), Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill said he hopes to pick jurors […]

  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jurors for Bill Cosby‘s criminal sex assault case in suburban Philadelphia will come from across the state. The panel will be chosen in Allegheny County. Pittsburgh, the county seat, is nearly a 300-mile drive from the Montgomery County courthouse, where the trial is set to start by early June. The jury […]

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A sequestered jury from an outside county will decide the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby, a suburban Philadelphia judge ruled Monday, rejecting a defense request to move the trial because of worldwide media reports that the actor’s lawyers say brand him a “serial rapist.” Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill will […]

Uh oh, there’s bad news for Bill Cosby. Lawyers for the Cos were unsuccessful in having the sexual assault charges against him dismissed. A Philadelphia area judge ruled the 78-year-old entertainer will have to go to trial. Wednesday evening, Judge Steven O’Neill ruled that there was “no basis to grant the relief request” by the attorneys, […]