Sunday, October 09, 2016

Bill Cosby plays the race card to avoid standing trial...

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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