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During Wells College’s 153rd Commencement ceremony today, President Jonathan Gibralter conferred undergraduate degrees upon 73 graduating students. In addition, a longtime professor who is retiring this year was granted the honorary title of professor emeritus, and several students were honored with academic and leadership awards.
The day’s events began at 10 a.m. in front of Macmillan Hall, with the traditional processional of students, faculty and featured guests through the building’s front doors. After the Rev. Barb Blom ’82 shared a spirited invocation, Marie Chapman Carroll ’75, chair of the College’s Board of Trustees, congratulated the seniors on their extraordinary achievement: “Today, we celebrate your rebirth as global citizens, prepared to thrive
those attorneys who conspired like gloria allred, tell them to go back to law school and take another class. that was bill cosby s spokesperson, andrew wyatt. joining me is trial attorney and legal analyst ann bremner. take a look at gloria allred. the court only allowed one such prior bad act witness to testify. that was my client, kelley johnson. rather than the 13 such witnesses which the prosecution wanted to call. if the court allows more accusers to testify next time, it might make a difference. what do you think? would the outcome have been different if more accusers were allowed to testify, are allowed to testify next time around? absolutely. this is going to be a do-over.
idea to come in and attack the judicial system. i think that may come back to bite them, particularly since you are not seeing conferences and messages from the prosecutors because they are typically restricted even after a trial to come out and say here s what you didn t see, here s what you didn t know. you re not seeing those comments from prosecution. you are only hearing the comments from cosby s wife, from his attorneys, from side advocates. i think those comments may come back to bite them in the butt later on, especially because they are going to see all of these same people as they are making very important rulings about how that next trial is going to be framed. that s going to be absolutely crucial in the next trial affecting cosby. katie, do you agree with paul, this attack on the justice system following the results today was effectively a misfire by camille cosby and the cosby side? oh, absolutely. there s something to be said about the idea of being
for things that are simply not presented in the courtroom. and the jury stuck to what they were asked to do and that is to review the evidence before them and there simply wasn t enough. katie, to you. it s hard not to watch bill cosby in the background as she was speaking. is she correct, was the evidence not enough? is that simply what this comes down to? that s not true. you can t say the evidence wasn t enough. the problem is you have to have a unanimous verdict of all 12 jurors so we need to actually hear from those jurors. we need them polled because i wouldn t have that level of arrogance that i feel is coming from the cosby camp right now. the combination of statements made by his wife, camille cosby as well as that of a spokesperson saying go back to law school, what if it turns out, jacob, that it s an 11 to convict to one to acquit vote, then was it really that bad for a prosecution case? obviously not.
to tell their stories. for many of them here, there have been a number who have been here sitting throughout the proceedings, they remain hopeful, they are trying to find what positive thing they can in this, but they are devastated and disappointed and frustrated to some extent by the outcome of this trial because again, some of these allegations go back to the 1960s, 1970s. there are as many as 50 or more women who have come forwar constand s case was the only one recent enough to still be prosecuted in a court of law. so there are a lot of hopes riding on her allegation. ron allen from the steps of the courthouse in norristown, pennsylvania, thank you very much. joining me is msnbc legal analyst katie fong and prosecutor and legal analyst paul henderson. good to see you both. one of bill cosby s attorneys, i want to start right off the bat, said this. this is what happens, juries are stuck when a prosecutor seeks to put someone in prison