Bill Cosby guilty of sexual assault
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A Montgomery County (Pennsylvania) jury has found Bill Cosby guilty of the only criminal charges to emerge from a career-ending scandal fueled by dozens of women who accused the entertainer once known as “America’s Dad” of sexual assault.
After about 13 hours of deliberation, the panel of seven men and five women on Thursday convicted him of drugging and assaulting Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee who said she had seen Cosby as a father-figure and mentor until the early 2004 night that he accosted her at his Cheltenham Township home. The 80-year-old entertainer could face up to 10 years in prison...
The fact that Constand’s allegations landed Cosby in a courtroom at all came after an improbable series of events that started in a Philadelphia comedy club a decade after Constand’s attack...(C)omedian Hannibal Burress'...2014 routine opened floodgates that resulted in a two-year onslaught of accusations from more than 60 other women who credited the renewed scrutiny for their own decisions to come forward – many for the first time – and allege they, too, had been drugged and molested by the entertainer...
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I read that the prosecution set up Cosby's retrial within fifteen minutes of learning that his first jury voted 10-2 in favor of conviction. So it's all over but the sentencing (unless Cosby vacates it by doing something foolish), and whatever Hannibal Buress has to say in conclusion -- though
HE has banned cell phones at his performances.