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Bill Cosby Sex Assault Conviction Overturned by Court
June 30, 2021
Actor and comedian Bill Cosby, center, arrives for a court appearance Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, in Norristown, Pa. Cosby was arrested and charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in January 2004.
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Pennsylvania s highest court overturned Bill Cosby s sex assault conviction Wednesday after finding an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case.
Cosby has served more than two years of a three- to 10-year sentence at a state prison near Philadelphia. He had vowed to serve all 10 years rather than acknowledge any remorse over the 2004 encounter with accuser Andrea Constand.
“Millions of supporters and millions of women have gotten in touch with us and said ‘We know these women made up these allegations. We know it’s not true,’” he alleged. “But the beauty of today, another great thing, they can no longer call him a sexual violent predator. “No longer call him a rapist. No longer call him these horrible things. He’s now Bill Cosby, an American and national treasure,” Wyatt concluded. Earlier on Thursday, a defiant Bill Cosby released a statement on social media, saying he has “always maintained my innocence”. “I have never changed my stance nor my story. I have always maintained my innocence,” Cosby said online.
Just hours earlier, Cosby flashed a peace sign as he was helped from a car carrying him to freedom on Wednesday (Thursday NZTime). The 83-year-old Cosby, who was once beloved as “America’s Dad”, was convicted of drugging and molesting the Temple University employee at his suburban estate. He was charged in late 2015, when a prosecutor armed with newly unsealed evidence – Cosby’s damaging deposition from her lawsuit – arrested him days before the 12-year statute of limitations expired. The trial judge had allowed just one other accuser to testify at Cosby’s first trial, when the jury deadlocked. However, he then allowed five other accusers to testify at the retrial about their experiences with Cosby in the 1980s.
Updated: 1 Jul 2021, 9:27
Mollie Mansfield
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BILL Cosby broke his silence moments after returning home following his shock prison release as he said I never changed my stance nor my story .
Cosby served more than two years of a three-to-10-year sentence at a state prison near Philadelphia before his sexual assault conviction was overturned on a technicality by Pennsylvania s Supreme Court in a stunning ruling on Wednesday.
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Cosby, 83, flashed a peace sign as he returned home - before tweeting that he d never changed his storyCredit: AP
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I have never changed my stance nor my story. I have always maintained my innocence.