In a withering indictment of both the #MeToo movement against the abuse and sexual harassment of women and the numerous female witnesses who testified against Cosby, Bliss told jurors that "questioning an accuser is not shaming a victim." "Yes, we do have to deal with sexual assault," Bliss said in ...
Bill Cosby's defense delivered a fiery closing argument at his sex abuse trial Tuesday, calling chief accuser Andrea Constand a scheming liar motivated by money. "You're dealing with a pathological liar, members of the jury," Cosby lawyer Tom Mesereau said. "You are." Mesereau spoke as Cosby's ...
April 24 (UPI) -- Lawyers representing Bill Cosby in his sexual assault trial cast doubt on the nationwide #MeToo movement and called the actor's accuser a "pathological liar" Tuesday during closing arguments. Kathleen Bliss urged the jury of seven men and five women to acquit Cosby in "one of the ...
One accuser asked him through tears, “You remember, don't you, Mr. Cosby?” Cosby's lawyers, who contend the encounter was consensual, called a woman who said Constand spoke of framing a high-profile person to sue and extract a big settlement. None of that was allowed at Cosby's streamlined ...
Defense attorneys Tom Mesereau and Kathleen Bliss said in their closing argument that chief accuser Andrea Constand consented to sexual activity, then leveled false accusations against the "Cosby Show" star so she could sue him and extract a big settlement. "You're dealing with a pathological liar, ...
Lawyers for Bill Cosby fiercely attacked the credibility of his accuser, Andrea Constand, during two hours of closing arguments in his sexual assault retrial here on Tuesday. They appealed to jurors to ignore the social changes occurring outside the courtroom so they could focus on the single case before ...
Defence lawyers for comedian Bill Cosby have attacked the credibility of women who testified against him at his sexual assault trial, singling out accuser Andrea Constand during closing arguments as a "pathological liar." Cosby, the once-beloved comedian and TV dad, is on trial on three counts of ...
The defense declared that Cosby himself was the victim of an elaborate scam. Cosby's lawyers, Tom Mesereau and Kathleen Bliss, insisted that Cosby's main accuser, Andrea Constand, consented to a sexual encounter at the star's home in suburban Philadelphia in 2004, then leveled false accusations ...
By David DeKok. NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Defense lawyers for comedian Bill Cosby on Tuesday attacked the credibility of women who testified against him at his sexual assault trial, drawing a stern rebuke from prosecutors who said such shaming of victims was the reason women do not report ...
Bliss, her voice thick with seeming disgust, called one of Cosby's accusers, Janice Dickinson, “a failed starlet” and “an aged-out model.” “It sounds as though she slept with every single man on the planet,” Bliss said. “Is Miss Dickinson really the moral beacon that the women's movement wants?”.
