Cosby Charged with Sexual Assault

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30 Dec 2015, 11:04 am

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Mr Cosby, 78, has been charged with aggravated indecent assault over an alleged incident in 2004 involving a former local university employee...
Andrea Constand, who was an employee at Temple University at the time of the alleged assault, sued Mr Cosby in 2005 and settled for an undisclosed sum after no charges were brought.
She has said she was tricked into taking drugs before being sexually assaulted by Mr Cosby.
Documents from the case were sealed until this summer.

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30 Dec 2015, 11:40 am

I wouldn't have much hope for him being held accountable criminally, proving a 12 year old case that they previously declined to prosecute will be tough and I'm sure he'll have the best lawyers money can buy too.

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30 Dec 2015, 11:46 am

It'll be a hard case to prove. I think they are just trying to ruffle his feathers.

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30 Dec 2015, 1:39 pm

Well, the universe has a way of dealing-out justice to people..... Like, maybe he'll steal his own memorabilia, and become OJ's b!tch! LOL

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30 Dec 2015, 2:22 pm

I have a feeling they'd kill each other.

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30 Dec 2015, 4:53 pm

It wouldn't be surprising if Cosby passes before an actual trial.

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30 Dec 2015, 4:54 pm

nah, I don't think he'll be as lucky as jimmy savile.

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30 Dec 2015, 4:56 pm

androbot01 wrote:

It'll be a hard case to prove. I think they are just trying to ruffle his feathers.

"...Will judges allow their courtrooms to become instruments of political propaganda?"
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30 Dec 2015, 5:41 pm

cberg wrote:

androbot01 wrote:

It'll be a hard case to prove. I think they are just trying to ruffle his feathers.

"...Will judges allow their courtrooms to become instruments of political propaganda?"
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To George's wife, I would say "YES"----if they're rewarded handsomely, enough!!

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31 Dec 2015, 3:03 am

Jacoby wrote:

Bill Cosby net worth is around 400 million dollars. With his money he can keep his case out of a court for years

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31 Dec 2015, 3:31 am

he already paid through the nose in the loss of public good will.

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31 Dec 2015, 4:42 am

auntblabby wrote:

he already paid through the nose in the loss of public good will.

We will have to see that translates into a guilty verdict by a jury.He will certainly have experts in helping him choose a jury that that is more favorable to him.A jury consultant helped pick the jury in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. Criminologist Jo-Ellan Dimitrius used surveys to determine the ideal defense juror demographic (black women) and analyzed and judged the prospective jurors' answers to a questionnaire and response and body language during voir dire (the stage of jury selection where lawyers are permitted to directly question the jury).

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31 Dec 2015, 8:34 am

Here's the damning Bill Cosby court deposition where he admitted obtaining Quaaludes for sex

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That employee, Andrea Constand, had previously filed a civil lawsuit against Cosby that was settled in 2006. Over the summer, a judge unsealed documents from that lawsuit — including the deposition from Cosby regarding Quaaludes, a sedative that was popular in the 1970s.

In that deposition from 2005, Cosby answered "yes" to the following question:

"When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?"

The full deposition in available from the link above. I don't think Cosby realizes that what he did was wrong. I think he feels entitled to sex.

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31 Dec 2015, 8:45 am

androbot01 wrote:

The full deposition in available from the link above. I don't think Cosby realizes that what he did was wrong. I think he feels entitled to sex.

...perhaps he'll use the affluenza defense: "I didn't know drugging and raping women was wrong because I'm rich and famous so I never had to have morals."

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31 Dec 2015, 8:47 am

I think the whole thing is a shame. He meant a lot to a lot of people, and it turns out it was all a lie.

He's got serious issues. I have no idea why someone would want to do any of those things. With his talent and fame, it wouldn't have been necessary to drug anyone for sex. He apparently has a preference for it. Control issues?

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31 Dec 2015, 9:42 am

I'm not surprised by any of this. I've read innumerable testimonies from people who've encountered him IRL about what a rude, sour, aggressive and entitled a**hole he is. If he is guilty - which I think is pretty likely - I hope the judge throws the book at him and that he lives to serve the full sentence. Multimillionaire celebrities should be no less accountable before the law than anyone else.

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