NORRISTOWN, Pa. — A woman who says she was sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby in 1984 called him out as a “serial rapist” in court Wednesday.. The scathing words, uttered by accuser Heidi Thomas right before she stepped down from the witness box during her second day of testimony, ...
Thomas has teamed with other Cosby accusers to lobby for longer statutes of limitations, including a successful effort to double Colorado's to 20 years. Court opened Wednesday with the defense successfully arguing that jurors should hear about another accuser's criminal past so they can fully assess ...
(AP) – The first accuser testifying at Bill Cosby's retrial is telling jurors she wants to “see a serial rapist convicted.” Heidi Thomas stunned Cosby's lawyers and the courtroom with her answer during cross-examination Wednesday, fending off the insinuation that she'd do anything to help the comedian's ...
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Jurors will be able to hear about the criminal past of one of the accusers in Bill Cosby's sex-assault retrial. Cosby lawyer Jaya Gupta told a judge Wednesday that Chelan Lasha's 2007 guilty plea for making a false report to Arizona law enforcement "bears on her veracity." The judge ...
Bill Cosby's attorneys sought to portray one of his accusers as an attention-seeker influenced by other women sharing their allegations against the comedian on day three of his criminal sexual assault retrial. “You've made it very clear you want to help Andrea Constand, haven't you?” defense attorney ...
She also later sent a Facebook message to Constand, the central accuser in Cosby's trial, telling her that she had her back. Asked about that message Wednesday, Thomas said, “I never would have believed I would be here.” Thomas also testified about flying to St. Louis in 1984 – for acting lessons ...
The first accuser testifying at Bill Cosby's retrial is telling jurors she wants to “see a serial rapist convicted.” Heidi Thomas stunned Cosby's lawyers and the courtroom with her answer during cross-examination Wednesday, fending off the insinuation that she'd do anything to help the comedian's chief ...
Gloria Allred, attorney for several of Cosby's accusers, three of whom are being called as witnesses in the retrial, described the defense's strategy as “a smear campaign.” Cosby, now 80 years old, faces three felony sexual-assault charges of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in his ...
Heidi Thomas responded to a defense lawyer's suggestion that she was trying to profit off her experiences. The first accuser testifying at Bill Cosby's retrial is telling jurors she wants to "see a serial rapist convicted." Heidi Thomas stunned Cosby's lawyers and the courtroom with her answer during ...
Cosby's lawyers have said her memories are tainted at best. Prosecutors are lining up the additional accusers to make the case that Cosby, once revered as "America's Dad," was a Hollywood predator who is only now facing a reckoning after allegedly assaulting Constand at his suburban Philadelphia ...
