Comedian Bill Cosby shouldn’t have to stand trial on felony sexual assault charges—a proceeding scheduled to begin next June—because he is old, blind, forgetful, and African-American.
Those, anyway, are among the arguments being deployed in the disgraced pop-culture icon’s new motion for dismissal that was filed Thursday in a Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, criminal court.
Cosby, 79, is facing three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault that he allegedly committed a dozen years ago on Andrea Constand, then a 31-year-old women’s basketball director at Cosby’s alma mater, Temple University.
And because of Cosby’s race—never mind his status as a mega-rich celebrity whose net worth was once estimated at $400 million—his lawyers are apparently claiming he can’t get a fair trial. Full story...
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Those, anyway, are among the arguments being deployed in the disgraced pop-culture icon’s new motion for dismissal that was filed Thursday in a Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, criminal court.
Cosby, 79, is facing three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault that he allegedly committed a dozen years ago on Andrea Constand, then a 31-year-old women’s basketball director at Cosby’s alma mater, Temple University.
And because of Cosby’s race—never mind his status as a mega-rich celebrity whose net worth was once estimated at $400 million—his lawyers are apparently claiming he can’t get a fair trial. Full story...
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