Good news for Bill Cosby

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Bill Cosby Officially Released From PA Prison After Overturned Conviction

 

[Windwalker]

Guilty nonetheless. Released on a technicality, not innocence.

 

[Watchmen]

Guilty nonetheless. Released on a technicality, not innocence.

What was the technicality?

 

[Windwalker]

What was the technicality?

It's explained in the video. The DA told him what he would say in a civil trial could not be used in the criminal trial, and it was. The video's less than 3 minutes long.

 

[Brickjectivity]

It's explained in the video. The DA told him what he would say in a civil trial could not be used in the criminal trial, and it was. The video's less than 3 minutes long.

...and that DA and the judge did not get into trouble for their deception. That means they can do the same thing with no penalty times infinity.

 

[pearl]

I wonder if another trial is pursued. In the first trial there was only one woman accuser, but there are several that came forward, will they now bring charges all witness. But I think there is a matter of statutes of limitation that may applicable.

 

[Windwalker]

...and that DA and the judge did not get into trouble for their deception. That means they can do the same thing with no penalty times infinity.

If I'm not mistaken, I believe that DA was the same attorney who attempted to defend Trump, rather poorly, during the 2nd impeachment trial.

 

[Watchmen]

It's explained in the video. The DA told him what he would say in a civil trial could not be used in the criminal trial, and it was. The video's less than 3 minutes long.

And how is that a “technicality”? Pretty sure there were also other reasons the court vacated the conviction.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

And how is that a “technicality”? Pretty sure there were also other reasons the court vacated the conviction.

Nope, that's the reason.

"Why did the court overturn the conviction?
Because prosecutors violated Mr. Cosby’s rights by reneging on an apparent promise not to charge him, the court majority ruled.

In 2005, Bruce L. Castor Jr., who was then the district attorney in Montgomery County, Pa., outside Philadelphia, issued a news release saying that he had declined to charge Mr. Cosby over the matter. Mr. Cosby then sat for depositions in a separate lawsuit filed against him by Ms. Constand, which he paid her $3.38 million to settle in 2006.

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But a subsequent district attorney reversed Mr. Castor’s decision and charged the entertainer with assaulting Ms. Constand after all. In the trial, prosecutors used what Mr. Cosby had said in the deposition — his admission that in decades past, he had given quaaludes to women in an effort to have sex with them — as evidence against him.

“We hold that, when a prosecutor makes an unconditional promise of non-prosecution, and when the defendant relies upon that guarantee to the detriment of his constitutional right not to testify, the principle of fundamental fairness that undergirds due process of law in our criminal justice system demands that the promise be enforced,” wrote Justice David Norman Wecht."
Bill Cosby’s Release From Prison, Explained

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

If I'm not mistaken, I believe that DA was the same attorney who attempted to defend Trump, rather poorly, during the 2nd impeachment trial.

He was.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Guilty nonetheless. Released on a technicality, not innocence.

Got only the prosecutors to blame for that.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I wonder if another trial is pursued. In the first trial there was only one woman accuser, but there are several that came forward, will they now bring charges all witness. But I think there is a matter of statutes of limitation that may applicable.

That ought to motivate women to speak up right away or concede.

 

[Watchmen]

Nope, that's the reason.

"Why did the court overturn the conviction?
Because prosecutors violated Mr. Cosby’s rights by reneging on an apparent promise not to charge him, the court majority ruled.

In 2005, Bruce L. Castor Jr., who was then the district attorney in Montgomery County, Pa., outside Philadelphia, issued a news release saying that he had declined to charge Mr. Cosby over the matter. Mr. Cosby then sat for depositions in a separate lawsuit filed against him by Ms. Constand, which he paid her $3.38 million to settle in 2006.

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Continue reading the main story

But a subsequent district attorney reversed Mr. Castor’s decision and charged the entertainer with assaulting Ms. Constand after all. In the trial, prosecutors used what Mr. Cosby had said in the deposition — his admission that in decades past, he had given quaaludes to women in an effort to have sex with them — as evidence against him.

“We hold that, when a prosecutor makes an unconditional promise of non-prosecution, and when the defendant relies upon that guarantee to the detriment of his constitutional right not to testify, the principle of fundamental fairness that undergirds due process of law in our criminal justice system demands that the promise be enforced,” wrote Justice David Norman Wecht."
Bill Cosby’s Release From Prison, Explained

It was one reason.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

It was one reason.

It was the only reason.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Givin his age and mangled reputation, I think Cosby will stay a straight shooter from this point on.

I don't think he's a danger to women anymore.

 

[Watchmen]

It was the only reason.

There was some testimony about Cosby’s activities in the 70s too.