Bill Cosby, 78, faces indecent assault charges and hopes his legal advisers will get them dismissed.
When they returned to the courtoom Wednesday, Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill decided that the Cosby defense team’s argument didn’t hold. The case will move forward. We knew heading into the hearing that Cosby’s defense would argue that Cosby had a deal with a suburban Philadelphia prosecutor in 2005 that he wouldn’t be prosecuted and should testify freely in accuser Andrea Constand’s civil lawsuit. That testimony, released only last year, prompted the successors of former Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. to reopen the case and ultimately charge the 78-year-old Cosby with felony sexual assault. Cosby has remained silent. Cosby admitted in the deposition that he had a series of affairs with young models and actresses; had obtained quaaludes to give women before sex; and gave accuser Andrea Constand three pills before a January 2004 encounter at his home. He called it consensual but she said she was drugged and violated. Earlier on Tuesday, Chloe Goins, who was Cosby’s youngest and most recent accuser, dropped her civil suit.
If these charges weren’t enough for Cosby to deal with, he also has to face the fact that it is all over the media. Hopefully he learned his lesson.