An attorney for a woman suing Bill Cosby for allegedly sexually assaulting her as a teenager encouraged a California jury during closing arguments Wednesday to hold him "fully accountable" for what he "did to a minor," while Cosby's attorney argued that no evidence at trial showed that an assault ever occurred.
A Los Angeles judge overseeing a civil trial over claims Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a teenager at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 on Friday denied her attorneys' request to allow a rebuttal witness who claims Cosby raped her at 16 testimony the judge said would "change the entire case."
One day after a California jury saw video testimony of Bill Cosby denying he knowingly pursued underage girls, attorney Gloria Allred asked the court on behalf of a client suing the comedian for sexual assault to allow a rebuttal witness who claims Cosby raped her at 16.
Bill Cosby was a major Hollywood star and a serial sexual predator in the mid-1970s, a California jury heard during opening statements Wednesday by an attorney for a woman who claims the comedian sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16.