Will the “MeToo” movement sink Bill Cosby at his new trial? That's what his attorneys fear, at least if the court lets 19 other accusers testify. “The purpose and obvious effect would just be to enrage the jury, this time with more prejudicial impact from what goes on outside the courtroom from the Me Too ...
Attorneys for Bill Cosby argue that allowing even one additional accuser to testify against him would unfairly prejudice a jury in his retrial on sexual assault charges. Prosecutors have asked the court to allow up to 19 additional accusers to be permitted to testify at his retrial. “It is so easy to judge the ...
Roy Moore accuser Deborah Gibson is running for office. "Too many of us, particularly women, have felt that some special mysterious qualification was needed to participate in our democratic process as a candidate." Addy Baird Twitter Mar 6, 2018, 1:48 pm. SHARE; Facebook · Twitter · Email · SMS ...
Grantham and Baumgardner both blasted the independent investigator, accusing her of bias and inaccuracies and a conflict of interest. Neither specified what the bias was or what the inaccuracies were, so it's basically what we call in the business a smear job. It's also basically calling the accuser a liar, ...
Prosecutors say the testimony from the 19 women – all of whom allege Cosby drugged and assaulted them in incidents dating back as far as the 1960s — is crucial to bolstering the claims of their case's central accuser, Andrea Constand. The former Temple University women's basketball manager first ...
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby's next sexual assault trial will last at least a month — twice as long as the last one, which ended in a hung jury. The Pennsylvania judge presiding over the case made the announcement during a pretrial hearing on Tuesday. He didn't say why he expected it to be so ...
But in the closing minutes of the hearing, a sharp back-and-forth between both sides revealed one significant way Cosby's April trial will be distinguished from the last: how much money accuser Andrea Constand won in a closely-guarded 2006 civil settlement with Cosby may be on the table.
A woman who says failed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore pursued a romantic relationship with her when she was a teenager and he was in his 30s has announced her intent to run as a Democrat for a Florida House seat. Deborah Gibson said she plans to run for a Florida House seat in the 89th ...
Bill Cosby, center, departs a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Monday, March 5, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum). Matt Slocum. The Latest: Cosby lawyer wants jury to hear about settlement. Bill Cosby, center, departs a pretrial hearing in ...
Bill Cosby's lawyers fight to block evidence from other accusers .... weighty issue" that he needs time to review. He allowed just one other accuser to take the stand at Cosby's first trial last year, barring any mention of about 60 others who have come forward to accuse Cosby in recent years. PA ...