then after that, she said, mr. cosby, you must have no contact with your complainant or alleged victim in this case. and at one point he had to sign papers. and the papers were brought to him on the conditions of the bail and she reiterated, you must have no contact with your complainant. and he said, no contact with and those were the first words we heard he spoke. she said no constant with your alleged victim. okay. then she said, if you do anything and not in compliance with this bail, it could be revoked. do you understand? and she was very nice. and he said, yes, your honor. with a smile on his face. and then the preliminary hearing set for january 14th. and that was basically it. and she said, the judge said, mr. cosby, good luck. and he said, thank you. and they stood up and he walked right out the door of this
pennsylvania. again, just to bring you up to speed, the legendary comedian charged this morning officially with aggravated indecent assault, a few hours later, he appeared before a judge there, the judge took his passport, set bail at $1 million. adam reiss still on the scene there. you re outside the courthouse. is that correct? reporter: that s correct. that s correct, craig. he came here 2:30 right on the dot as expected. it was a very short, brief hearing. he walked in. he almost tripped on the curb. seeming very fragile. when he entered the courtroom, he had to be directed. we had a producer in the courtroom who described him as a little bit dazed and confused. he had to be directed to the right, someone said, mr. cosby, to the right, to the left. he sat down, the judge read the charges. she read what would be the bail which would be $1 million. she said that you cannot have any contact with the accuser,
happens regularly in high profile cases. they want to get him in, get him processed. do everything by the book and by the law. get him printed. set bail. get him out. if he is free to go and they took away his passport, he is clearly an flight risk. from there probably back it lto angeles to his home. sit down with his lawyers and plan. thank you so much. you re welcome. any time. next here, the wealthy teenager wap tocaptured while o run is fighting extradition to come back to the united states. we will find out exactly what is next for this young man, ethan couch, and his mother. you both have a perfect driving record. perfect. no tickets. no accidents. that is until one of you clips a food truck, ruining your perfect record. yup. now, you would think your insurance company would cut you some slack, right? no. your insurance rates go through the roof.
this one, warrant for your arrest is usually issued by the grand jury. and if you don t show up, that warrant can be used to cause your arrest in the future. however, the d.a. has said he s been in contact with the defense attorneys. so in that situation, usually a voluntary surrender is arranged and i would still expect cosby to show up. if prosecutors have given him a bye for showing up on his own arraignme arraignment, that would be unusual. and that would only be if he couldn t get to pennsylvania when the announcement was made he was under indictment and maybe they will have him come back at a different date. as joey said, the interesting thing, if cosby is in court, what happens with respect to bail. he is obviously a multim illon air. how high will the bail be? in a case like this the bail is usually very high. or has an arrangement or deal been worked out for the defense
courthouse. very first criminal charge he has faced amid all these different accusations. 50 or so that have come forward. gene jean casarez seeing it with her own eyes. and putting you on the spot from the police perspective, we saw the pictures of mr. cosby leaving this small quaint courthouse headed in his black suv down the road to this police department where we know, obviously, saw his mug shot. there you good. fingerprints. what else happens typically? i don t care if you re bill cosby or anyone off the street. after an arraignment, what s the process? he is released now. he posted bail. he has been released. he will show up at the initial court hearing, when they have that scheduled in january. so yeah, he is free to go just like anybody else would be. thankfully pennsylvania has a statute of limitations that last so long and in a lot of states you don t have it lasting as long. you mean for sexual assault.