NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — In the tense moments before a jury convicted Bill Cosby of sexual assault, the prosecutor who had branded him a “con man” and called him out for laughing during closing arguments started to worry about the global implications if the #MeToo era’s first big trial went the other way. Accuser Andrea […]
During the Bill Cosby trial, a topless woman ran out in front of him before being tackled by police. On her chest and breast were the names of the women accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault. DL doesn’t think her choice of protest did too much to support the #MeToo movement. Don’t Miss Out! Follow […]
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 sought to raise doubts Thursday about the allegations of a woman who testified that the 80-year-old comedian knocked her out with pills and raped her during a 1982 encounter in Nevada. Janice Baker-Kinney returned to the witness stand after punctuating the first two hours of her testimony at […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — After a showdown over race, the jury picked to decide Bill Cosby’s fate in the first big trial of the #MeToo era ended up mirroring the gender and racial makeup of the group that deadlocked last year: seven men and five women — 10 white, two black. Race dominated Wednesday’s jury […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A jury of seven men and five women — 10 of them white, two of them black — was seated Wednesday to decide Bill Cosby’s fate in the biggest celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, after a day marked by defense accusations of racial discrimination. Cosby’s lawyers alleged a member of […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors and lawyers for Bill Cosby sparred Friday over whether jurors at his sexual assault retrial will hear lurid deposition testimony from the comedian about giving quaaludes to a string of women before sex. District Attorney Kevin Steele asked a judge during a pretrial hearing in suburban Philadelphia to let them […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby’s retrial on charges he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago is set for November. An order signed Thursday by Judge Steven O’Neill says all parties must report to the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 6. Prosecutors found themselves back to square one […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby’s retrial on charges he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago is set for November. An order signed Thursday by Judge Steven O’Neill says all parties must report to the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 6. Prosecutors found themselves back to square one […]
The defense has rested its case in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial after calling just one witness – and it was neither the actor, nor his wife, Camille, who made her first appearance in the courtroom this morning. The comedian’s lawyers called to the stand only Detective Richard Schaffer, who was used mainly as a means […]
The defense has rested its case in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial after calling just one witness – and it was neither the actor, nor his wife, Camille, who made her first appearance in the courtroom this morning. The comedian’s lawyers called to the stand only Detective Richard Schaffer, who was used mainly as a means […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The jury that will hear the sex assault case against Bill Cosby will include two blacks among its 12 members. Prosecutors and the defense team on Wednesday also selected three of six alternates, and two of them are black. Cosby’s lawyers had complained this week that prosecutors were trying to keep blacks […]
