Days after deep-sixing Donald Trump’s latest lunge to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court on Tuesday took up Bill Cosby’s Hail Mary appeal of his 2018 rape conviction.
With some minor technical glitches, this morning’s about 80-minute virtual hearing came down to prior bad acts, invoking 5th amendment rights, and a 2005 press release from the prior D.A. of the Keystone State’s Montgomery County.
In a gathering that saw the likes of brisk Chief Justice Thomas Saylor staring off camera at times, the hearing started with defense attorney Jennifer Bonjean ripping into the current Montgomery County D.A.’s office for its successful prosecution two years ago of the now-imprisoned Cosby for sexually assaulting Andrea Constand.
Her much accused client “never had a fair shot,” Bonjean declared, with emphasis on trial judge Steven O’Neill permitting five other women to take the stand in the case...
With some minor technical glitches, this morning’s about 80-minute virtual hearing came down to prior bad acts, invoking 5th amendment rights, and a 2005 press release from the prior D.A. of the Keystone State’s Montgomery County.
In a gathering that saw the likes of brisk Chief Justice Thomas Saylor staring off camera at times, the hearing started with defense attorney Jennifer Bonjean ripping into the current Montgomery County D.A.’s office for its successful prosecution two years ago of the now-imprisoned Cosby for sexually assaulting Andrea Constand.
Her much accused client “never had a fair shot,” Bonjean declared, with emphasis on trial judge Steven O’Neill permitting five other women to take the stand in the case...
- 12/1/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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