(AP) Bill Cosby’s sentencing hearing Monday will begin with testimony about his sex offender evaluation and, presumably, a fierce debate over whether the 81-year-old actor should be branded a sexually violent predator. The stakes are high given the lifetime counseling, community alerts and public shaming the designation would trigger. And it could become evidence in…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Speaking out for the first time, the jury that convicted Bill Cosby at his sexual assault retrial said Monday it found the comedian’s chief accuser to be “credible and compelling,” adding its verdict had nothing to do with the #MeToo movement or any another factor outside the courtroom. The jury wrote in…
NORRISTOWN, Pa.(AP) – Bill Cosby is lashing out at prosecutors after a jury convicted him of three counts of aggravated indecent assault. Cosby, 80, could end up spending his final years in prison after a jury concluded he sexually violated Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. He claimed the…
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Women who say comedian Bill Cosby knocked them out with intoxicants and sexually assaulted them decades ago are finally getting a chance to confront him — and they aren’t holding back. Janice Baker-Kinney will return to the witness stand on Thursday after punctuating her first two…
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Comedian Bill Cosby has arrived for the fourth day of jury selection in his retrial on sexual assault charges. Cosby stumbled slightly getting out of an SUV on Thursday and then put a hand up to say he was OK before walking into the suburban Philadelphia courthouse where lawyers will work…
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby’s lawyers are expected to make a last-ditch effort on Thursday to postpone the comedian’s sexual assault retrial by pressuring the judge to step aside after losing their bid to overturn his ruling allowing up to five additional accusers to testify. The defense first demanded…
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -Lawyers in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case say his eyesight has deteriorated to the point he can no longer identify his accusers in photographs or otherwise help the defense. The 79-year-old Cosby leaned back in his chair Wednesday as his lawyers tried to get a felony charge dismissed before his June trial…
Remember when Gilbert Gottfried was on Saturday Night Live for 12 episodes in 1980? Neither do we. But he’s got a new podcast out, and shares stories about Bill Cosby, the late Robin Williams, and that time Aflac fired him…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Bill Cosby is demanding that the accuser in his Pennsylvania criminal case repay a confidential sex-abuse settlement because she cooperated with police who reopened the case last year. The actor’s breach-of-contract lawsuit says the 2006 settlement bars Andrea Constand from “voluntarily” discussing the case with law enforcement. The lawsuit says she had…
Cosby received the honorary doctorate from the University of Missouri in 1999