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Cosby Citing Systemic Racism as He Fights Assault Conviction
Bill Cosby has long championed personal responsibility in the Black community
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Cosby Files Appeal Over Testimony From Other Women Accusers
Bill Cosby has filed a lengthy appeal of the sex assault conviction that landed him in prison and says the judge allowed testimony from other women accusers that wasn’t relevant....
Cosby’s lawyers say the accounts from the five other women were “strikingly dissimilar” to that of trial accuser Andrea Constand and too remote in time to her 2004 encounter with... -
Judge: Cosby Accusers' Testimony Pointed to ‘Signature' Crime
The judge who presided over Bill Cosby’s criminal case said he let five other accusers testify at the sex-assault trial because their accounts had “chilling similarities” that pointed to a “signature” crime.
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Cosby's Insurer Agrees to Settle Seven Defamation Lawsuits; Comedian Says Settlement Happened Without His Permission
Bill Cosby’s insurance company has agreed to settle lawsuits filed by seven women who say the comedian defamed them when he accused them of lying about sexual misconduct allegations.
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Bill Cosby's Lawyers Ask Court to Void Conviction, Prison Sentence
Bill Cosby’s lawyers have asked a Pennsylvania court to overturn the actor’s conviction and three- to 10-year prison sentence because of what they call a string of errors in his sex assault case.
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Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh Testimony May Trigger Trauma In Sex Assault Victims
The media storm surrounding the sexual assault allegations by Christine Blasey Ford against Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court nomination process has become a spectacle with 24/7 news coverage. To some survivors of sexual assault and victims of abuse, the hearings and testimony may trigger trauma. “People who have been sexually traumatized will try to avoid anything that will be...
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Ford: Attackers' Laughter Is Clearest Memory of Assault
During the confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, Christine Blasey Ford told Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., that Kavanaugh’s and his friend Mark Judge’s laughter during her alleged assaulted, remains her clearest memory of that moment.
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Cosby Defense Vows Appeal; Publicist Decries Justice System
A publicist for once-beloved actor Bill Cosby complained that his conviction and three- to 10-year prison term for sexual assault Tuesday stem from a racist and sexist justice system, as the defense vowed to appeal the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. Cosby, 81, was spending his first night alone in a Pennsylvania prison after being accustomed to a...
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Bill Cosby's Day of Reckoning: Judge Sends ‘Sexually Violent Predator' to Prison
Bill Cosby, once heralded as America’s Dad, is heading to Pennsylvania prison after being sentenced to three to 10 years for a 2004 sex assault in the Philadelphia suburbs.
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Cosby Sentenced to 3 to 10 Years in Prison
Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. The judge also declared Cosby a “sexually violent predator,” which means he will have to undergo monthly counseling and register with police if he leaves prison.
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Highlights From Day 1 of Cosby Sentencing Hearing
Tuesday will mark day two of the sentencing phase in the Bill Cosby trial. Bill Cosy’s chief accuser testified at Monday’s sentencing hearing saying she just wants justice.
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Might Bill Cosby Be Sent to Prison? Judge Has Sentencing Options
Bill Cosby could be sent to prison next week for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004 in what became the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
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Lawyers for Bill Cosby Fight Testimony of Other Accusers at Sentencing
Bill Cosby’s lawyers will fight a prosecution bid to have other accusers testify at his sentencing this month on felony sex assault charges.
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‘Serial Rapist' Written on Bill Cosby's Star on the Walk of Fame
Bill Cosby’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was vandalized overnight Tuesday, police said. Officers went to the star about 5:30 a.m. and found the words “Serial Rapist” written on it with a marker pen, the Los Angeles Police Department reported. Police took a vandalism report, and the graffiti has since been removed, police said. No arrests were...
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Andrea Constand Says Bill Cosby Is ‘Sick' But She Forgives Him
Andrea Constand emerged from the Bill Cosby trial with the justice she had long sought — but no malice for the man convicted of drugging and molesting her. “I forgave Bill Cosby for what he did to me,” she told NBC News in an exclusive interview for “Dateline” that was set to air Friday at 10 p.m. ET. “It’s been...
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Cosby Victim Makes First Public Statements Since Trial
The woman whose claims that Bill Cosby drugging and molesting her led to the comedian’s conviction on sexual assault charges is speaking out in public for the first time.
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‘Mob Justice, Not Real Justice' Convicted Bill Cosby, Wife Says
Bill Cosby’s wife called Thursday for a criminal investigation into the suburban Philadelphia prosecutor behind his sexual assault conviction, saying the case that could put the 80-year-old comedian in prison for the rest of his life was “mob justice, not real justice” and a “tragedy.”
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Yale University Votes to Rescind Bill Cosby's Honorary Degree
The Yale University Board of Trustees has voted to rescind Bill Cosby’s honorary degree after the comedian was found guilty on sexual assault charges on Thursday.
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Analysis: Why Time's Up for Bill Cosby
The guilty verdict against the one-time beloved “America’s Dad” reflects changing perceptions in #MeToo/Time’s Up era – movements his case helped propel.
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Bill Cosby Guilty of Drugging & Molesting a Woman
Bill Cosby was convicted Thursday of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, completing the spectacular late-life downfall of a comedian who broke racial barriers in Hollywood on his way to TV superstardom as America’s Dad.