Wednesday, June 30, 2021

BILL COSBY'S CONVICTION THROWN OUT BY COURT

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:

Gary said...

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.

bob walsh said...

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.