Prosecutor Also Forbidden To Refile
by Bob Walsh
The
Pennsylvania Supreme Court just threw out Bill Cosby's sexual assault
conviction and, as part of the ruling, forbade the prosecutor from
refiling charges.
Cosby's
lawyers have maintained from day one that he had a deal with the
previous district attorney that said he absolutely would NOT be
prosecuted on these charges. A new DA didn't care and arrested him two
days before the statute of limitations would have run out.
The
court said that Cosby gave potentially damaging information in the
civil suit against him, relying on the assurances of the District
Attorney at the time.
In
addition the trial judge at his second trial (the jury deadlocked on the
first trial you may recall) allowed five other accusers to offer what
was essentially negative character information against Cosby even though
he was not being charged criminally in those cases. The first trial
allowed only one of these accusers. The court decried a tendency
towards allowing this negative information. Previously the idea had
been to allow such testimony only to establish a pattern that led to the
identity of the perpetrator.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Oh Goodie goodie, now we can all believe he was America's dad again.
2 comments:
Deals a deal. The prosecutor who failed to honor the deal should be prosecuted, but won't be.
Yes Cosby is guilty, doesn't matter once he was given immunity by a prosecutor.
An appeals court doesn't try the case. They try the trial. He was, and still is, obviously guilty as sin. He may go to his maker as a sleazeball but not as a convicted felon.
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