Invoice Cosby Reacts After Shedding Attraction
Invoice Cosby has been denied his enchantment to overturn his 2018 sexual assault conviction, The New York Occasions studies, that means the disgraced comic will stay behind bars.
“Mr. Cosby stays hopeful and he stands behind his innocence,” mentioned the spokesman for Invoice Cosby, Andrew V. Wyatt, after the decision.
As reported by The New York Occasions, the Pennsylvania Superior Courtroom upheld Cosby’s conviction for 3 counts of aggravated indecent assault on Tuesday (Dec. 10), denying his enchantment of the fees. The Pennsylvania appellate court docket got here to a unanimous resolution to reject the 82-year-old’s argument that he was denied a good trial.
Earlier this 12 months, Cosby formally filed an enchantment following his sexual assault conviction in June. He’s at present in jail and serving a three- to 10-year sentence for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004 at his dwelling close to Philadelphia, in accordance with NPR.
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Cosby based mostly his enchantment on the declare that his 5 extra accusers mustn’t have been allowed to testify at his trial, per NBC Information. Nonetheless, the proof introduced established what the court docket believed to be a “distinctive sexual assault playbook,” mentioned the Pennsylvania appellate court docket.
Steven O’Neill, the Montgomery County choose who led the trial, mentioned that the testimonies from the ladies painted “chilling similarities.”
“There have been a number of prior sexual assaults, not merely one, and all of these prior assaults evidenced the identical, signature sample of misconduct,” mentioned the appeals court docket.
Andrea Constand testified in the course of the trial that she initially met Cosby within the fall of 2002 whereas she was working at Temple College with the ladies’s basketball workforce. He later turned her skilled mentor and launched her to skilled connections. A jury discovered him responsible in April of 2018.
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NPR says the previous entertainer requested to repeal by asking the Superior Courtroom to assessment questions he submitted. They later rejected by offering their rationalization of Cosby’s contentions in a 94-page web page opinion abstract.
Cosby workforce responded the denied enchantment saying:
This information of the Superior Courtroom denying Mr. Cosby’s enchantment is appalling and disappointing, but it surely reveals the extent of corruption that resides within the Judicial System of Pennsylvania. These panel of judges by no means took the time to assessment the clear details of Mr. Cosby’s enchantment. Mr. Cosby’s enchantment outlined the bias of Choose Steve T. O’Neill; confirmed that the jurists had been tainted by juror #11 who said, “Mr. Cosby is responsible, let’s not waste numerous time and discover him responsible;” confirmed that the 404(b) witnesses ought to have by no means being allowed to supply testimony in Mr. Cosby’s trial as a result of they’d “no” comparable pursuits with Andrea Constand; and most significantly, Mr. Cosby’s deposition ought to have by no means been thought of on the trial. It’s apparent that these judges’ minds had been made up as a result of they didn’t take the time to dissect Mr. Cosby’s enchantment. We’re not shocked as a result of it reveals the world that this isn’t about justice, however it is a political scheme to destroy Mr. Cosby, nonetheless they won’t cease us and we are going to prevail within the State Supreme Courtroom. Mr. Cosby stays hopeful and he stands behind his innocence.
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