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Cosby Conviction Overturned

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June 30, 2021
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By Stacy M Brown
NNPA Newswire Sr Nat’l Correspondent

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned comedian Bill Cosby’s 2018 sexual assault conviction.
The state Supreme Court ruled that Cosby’s deal with former prosecutor Bruce Castor should have been honored. In a phone call with Cosby attorney Jennifer Bonjean, she states, “I am thrilled! I haven’t made my way through the entire opinion yet, but it seems that the court agrees with what we knew all along, that Mr. Cosby never should have been prosecuted in the first place. If a prosecutor’s word is not his bond, then we as a society — and the entire criminal justice system — is in trouble.”
When asked, when we could expect him to be released, she responded, “We are on our way to the prison now to pick him up.”
He had also cast doubt on alleged victim Andrea Constand’s credibility. Castor told the Black Press that the trials against Cosby were “a miscarriage of justice.”
Cosby has served nearly three years of a 3-to-10 year-prison sentenced following his 2018 conviction on charges of indecent aggravated assault.
He had repeatedly maintained his innocence.
“When an unconditional charging decision is made publicly and with the intent to induce action and reliance by the defendant, and when the defendant does so to his detriment (and in some instances upon the advice of counsel), denying the defendant the benefit of that decision is an affront to fundamental fairness, particularly when it results in a criminal prosecution that was foregone for more than a decade,” according to the high court opinion.
“For these reasons, Cosby’s convictions and judgment of sentence are vacated, and he is discharged.”

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