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Rapists are people too. Camila most have paid lots of $$$$ to buy off the S.C. I wish he gets charged in other states. I know he raped women in California.
Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction Wednesday after finding an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case. Prosecutors did not immediately say if they would appeal or seek to try Cosby for a third time.
The justices voiced concern not just about sex assault cases, but what they saw as the judiciary’s increasing tendency to allow testimony that crosses the line into character attacks. The law allows the testimony only in limited cases, including to show a crime pattern so specific it serves to identify the perpetrator.
In Cosby’s case, one of his appellate lawyers said prosecutors put on vague evidence about the uncharged conduct, including Cosby’s own recollections in his deposition about giving women alcohol or quaaludes before sexual encounters.
“The presumption of innocence just didn’t exist for him,” Jennifer Bonjean, the lawyer, argued to the court in December.
I never followed any of this very closely. But I do know that he was convicted at the time when all of the #MeToo witch hunt mob was on the rampage, and the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings were being conducted by some of the most despicable people that humanity has yet produced, based on the same despicable tactics.
I do not know if he is guilty of any of these charges or not. But we cannot just "believe all women," which it appears may be the basis for his conviction here.
Anyway, Bill is back - without a criminal record of any kind.
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Wow. I'm really surprised.
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I read the article. They're not finding him innocent; they're finding prosecutorial misconduct. Makes sense. Voiding the guilty verdict.
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Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction overturned by court
