The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned Bill Cosby’s 2018 sexual assault conviction on Wednesday and barred him from being retried, a decision that will pave the way for his release from prison and upend the first high-profile celebrity conviction of the #MeToo era.
i've been told there was gross prosecutorial misconduct which the original trial judge discounted.
shareSomeone else on the news said he's still subject to the LAWS of other STATES that could PROSECUTE him again (due to the way that the STATUTE of LIMITATIONS stops as soon as he leaves a certain state).
MICHIGAN was one of the states they mentioned that has the law that would enable the VICTIM he abused there to file charges and place him back in JAIL again.
> i've been told there was gross prosecutorial misconduct which the original trial judge discounted.
They wouldn't let him have any Jello pudding while he was locked up. Cruel and unusual punishment.
lol. the prosecutor baited-and-switched him. i'm no fan of rapey o'cosby. don't get it twisted.
shareHe should go back to stand-up as he's got 3 years of new material.
shareWhen he was convicted it was for three counts, but he had a lot more accusers than that. I wonder if they'll try to go after him for other incidents?
> He should go back to stand-up as he's got 3 years of new material.
Naah. He's got a great career ahead as a spokesman for Lunesta.
or some adult shaped Jello like popsicles.
shareI've said it before and I'll say it again. If Lizzie Borden were alive today she'd be a paid spokeswoman for some hatchet company. All the old standards, the old values, the old concepts of decency, are in tatters. Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history.
shareha ha
shareI can never know for sure if he is guilty. It all sounds very damning. But there is ALWAYS a mob of accusers when a celebrity's money and proxy-fame is on the table.
He is a famous guy accused of using qualudes to have sex with women in an era where it was common for people to party with qualudes and have sex. He admitted to getting the drugs to have sex with women and modern listeners freaked out. He was only saying what everyone commonly did with no thought at all to it being rape. They were not sneaking it into drinks. Ladies (and guys) were willfully taking the drug. It makes the "victims" seem disingenuous or at the very least bitter after the fact.
Maybe he was evil and knowingly raping. But maybe not. His behavior was wholly accepted as regular party behavior by both sexes.
> I can never know for sure if he is guilty. It all sounds very damning. But there is ALWAYS a mob of accusers when a celebrity's money and proxy-fame is on the table.
Agreed. Liars aren't confined to one gender, and I'm sure the MeToo crowd contained its share of slanderers. But I think the criminal justice system usually gets it right in guilty verdicts. It's far more difficult to convict an innocent person than to keep a guilty one from being convicted.
I'll give you one person's take on Cosby, for what it's worth. Just after the accusations started publicly multiplying, comedian Jimmie Walker did some gigs in Lexington, KY. At that time WLEX's noon news program was 45 minutes of news followed by a 15 minute interview with a guest. They had Walker on as the guest on this day.
The anchor started off by explaining for the audience's benefit that these 12:45 interviews were arranged weeks in advance, and when they had booked Walker the scandal with Cosby hadn't happened yet. She then turned to Walker and said, "You've known Bill Cosby for a long time. You've worked with him. I'm sorry to put you on the spot, but it's news and I have to ask."
"I understand," Walker said.
"What's your reaction to the accusations against him?"
"The only thing that surprises me is that anyone was surprised by this," Walker said. "I thought everybody knew."
That sums it up well. Not rape. These women watched one too many Special Victim Unit episodes and thought being offered drugs constitutes rape because they cant consent under the influence. Fuck off with that bullshit. Then when they realized, no sweety, a court room is not like your favorite episode of Law & Order. You actually have to back up these retarded claims with evidence, so they had to double down to not look like fools and made up the passed out nonsense, as if Cosby would even need to. Look at all these women he was around. No need whatsoever. Logic will ultimately prevail.
share^^^This. These accusers are full of sh!t.
Qualuudes were a popular party drug in the 70s and 80s in which both sexes consented.
yeah. no. there were allegations against him, settlements made, going back decades.
shareNorm Macdonald on Bill Cosby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUBB1AWJOhY&t=1m2s