Prosecutors in Bill Cosby's sexual-assault retrial began trying to counter defense attorney Tom Mesereau's depiction of accuser Andrea Constand as a con artist by calling other accusers to the stand to testify that the comedian drugged and attacked them decades before his 2004 encounter with ...
Spokesman Andrew Wyatt cited Cosby's defense attorney's opening statement Tuesday blasting his accuser. He says that the truth will be shown in court and Cosby will be vindicated. The first of five additional accusers against Cosby is continuing her testimony in court Wednesday. Heidi Thomas told ...
The Latest: Cosby wants to raise accuser's criminal past ... Bill Cosby's lawyers are arguing in court at his sexual assault retrial that jurors should hear about an accuser's criminal past so they can fully assess her ... Lasha is one of five additional accusers who are being allowed to testify in the retrial.
A third accuser has taken the witness stand at Bill Cosby's sexual-assault retrial in suburban Philadelphia. Janice Baker-Kinney was a 24-year-old bartender in 1982, when she says Cosby gave her two pills that made her lose consciousness. She testified Wednesday she woke up naked in bed with the ...
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 ...
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 accuser. Thomas says she came forward with her allegations in early 2015 to support other women who have ...
The Latest on the Bill Cosby sexual assault retrial (all times local):. 12:10 p.m.. 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 ...
As Eden Tirl watched a procession of celebrity women voicing their support for the #MeToo movement at this year's Golden Globe Awards, she had one question: Where was all this support when the first Bill Cosby accusers came forward? Tirl was a 22-year-old model who had landed a bit part on The ...
(CNN) – Former Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore filed a countersuit against a woman who accused him of sexual misconduct. AL.com reports Moore and his attorney filed the counterclaim against Leigh Corfman late Monday. Moore also called a defamation suit filed against him by Corfman ...
But unlike in the first trial, which ended in a mistrial last year when a deadlocked jury failed to reach a verdict, the judge is allowing up to five other accusers to testify against Cosby. The 80-year-old entertainer, once known as America's Dad for his endearing role on the 1980s television hit The Cosby ...
