come. and then he told him his sentence of a minimum of three years and maximum of 10 years in a state prison that he would be responsible for paying $25,000 in court costs that he can have no contact with his victim, andrea constand or his family and that he is, in fact, subject to the sex offender program. so forth rest of his life, he will be considered a sex offender. and not just a sex offender but a sexually violent predator. someone who according to a court expert suggested that he could likely do it again if given the opportunity, which is apparently one of the reasons why judge o neil gave him three years in state prison and not less than two years in county or even house arrest. bill cosby going to state prison, most likely today as we wait for the appeal to be no bail. all right. so the producer is now telling me bill cosby no bail. is he, in fact, going to prison, being processed today. there we see andrea
predator means many things for bill cosby for the rest of his life. yeah. including he has to register as a sex offender and that designation surely playing into the sentence that the judge steven o neil will be handing down. i want to be clear, joy, there is a decorum order in place we have a producer in the courtroom she is not allowed to message us, emails us or anything until the judge finishes his ruling and that sentence. people can get up and leave the courtroom. it s possible that someone did do just that because we have been told that the judge has told bill cosby he will be sentenced to state prison. what we don t know is how long that 12e7bs wil sentence w. we heard from kevin steele because bill cosby was designate add violent sexual predator a term of house arrest would not be appropriate or legal in this case. we re not sure if the judge agreed with that we do know 80% of defendants who face the same conviction on
julie: i want to ask you to stand by i have to go back to our reporter rick leventhal who is on scene. he has information as he stands outside the courthouse. rick? we have some notes, julie from our producer who has been in the court throughout this sentencing hearing. there was a peak he was ledge to ryan from her notes. she said while waiting for the judge cosby just took off his tie and gave it to his friend. before reading out the sentence the judge steven o neil told the court the reason for the specific sentence he said this is a serious sexual assault. that he put seriousness on the weight of the crime as the crime as he came to light in testimony he says he is not permitted to treat bill cosby differently because of who he is or who he was. he said he recognized cosby s age and that he is blind but that is not the fact that he would not put the most weight in. and he did, in fact,