i ve had i ve had a couple cases here that have been with powerful people as most of you know. i tried a case where the chief law enforcement officer in the state had committed crimes and we had to go in and that s not the most comfortable place to be when you have to tear apart your profession in some ways because she was a prosecutor, but i think that s just an example of, we re going to go where the investigation s take us. we are going to look to see who has committed a crime and whether they re powerful, whether they re wealthy, whether they have evaded the law in the
jurors for their diligence, the sacrifices that they made as well as the sacrifices of their families so that they could serve in this important duty that they did. so today we re finally in a place to say that justice was done. as prosecutors we have a responsibility to seek justice and we have to go wherever and to whomever it takes us and to begin, i want to step back to a point that was pretty desighive in this case and that s when the judge released the civil case deposition and indicated in his opinion that the defendants deposition showed the stark contrast between bill cosby, the public moralist, and bill cosby, the subject of serious allegations concerning improper and perhaps criminal conduct.
shade with our department and detective reap who i heard it may be your birthday today. yeah. we re all going to sing happy birthday now. these detectives worked really hard to reopen this case and throughout the whole process, and i couldn t be more proud of the entire investigative team. they are they re supported by the lieutenant from our major crimes, chris cooklyn, deputy chief, mark byrne who has handled so much of these investigative efforts, chief gallen and all the support that they provide and have picked up in this. beyond the guilty verdict, there have been some other, i think, important outcomes in this case.
put through. those are the people we all owe a debt of gratitude too today for their strength and resilience through this entire process as well as every day, because they stand with us, they work with the victims and they make a difference in their lives. i m very grateful to stand here before you with this team and again, it s not all of our team, who worked to see that justice was done, but we had to overcome many legal hurdles that were thrown at us by various defense lawyers who have been on this case for the past 28 months. this time from the lawyers of four different law firms and each step of the way, we fought for the opportunity for the victims to be heard. the opportunity to get this case to a jury, an opportunity to be standing before all of you after
at that point the prosecutors, who are here to do the right thing and specifically my predecess predecessor, opened up and reopened this investigation. so that s a duty but that duty took courage because she had to open up a case against a powerful man, but i can say definitively that that s one of the things that is done over and over again in the montgomery county district attorney s office. we have shown from our record that money and power or who you are will not stop us from a criminal investigation or prosecuting a case. what was revealed through this investigation was a man who had