Police officers for Bill Cosby have filed a new appeal with the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, claiming that his process of sexual assault was not fair to him.
According to court documents obtained by Fox News, Cosby’s legal team is of the opinion that the jury was unfairly prejudiced against him when his trial allowed five women to testify against accusations against the cabaret artist, despite the fact that he was never related to the claims were indicted.
The 83-year-old actor has been jailed for nearly two years in Philadelphia after a jury convicted him in 2004 of drugs and sexually assaulting a woman in his home. He serves a self-punishment of three to 10 years.
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His lawyers have challenged the decision to allow former prosecutors to testify about events as far back as the 1970s. In their latest appeal, Cosby’s lawyers call the testimony “unmanageable at a distance” and “without conspicuous similarities” or narrow factual nexus to holding and carrying where petitioner was on probation. “
In this September 25, 2018, file photo, Bill Cosby is facing a felony conviction following his conviction for sexual assault at the Courthouse in Montgomery County in Norristown, Pa.
(AP Photo / Matt Rourke)
They also cite the use of a former depot that Cosby gave in a civil case in which he allowed the use of sedatives. Lawyers claim Cosby was told he could not be prosecuted for the deposition.
“Narrator has reasonably violated these oral and written statements by giving evidence of deposition in the civil action, thereby losing his constitutional right against self-incrimination,” the newly submitted court documents read.
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The appeal covers the two areas of the case that the state Supreme Court has already stated it will consider.
These issues have been at the heart of the case since Cosby was indicted in December 2015, days before the 12-year statute of limitations was set to lapse. Prosecutors in Montgomery County have reopened the case that year after The Associated Press fought to denounce parts of Cosby’s decades-old deposition testimony in prosecutor Andrea Constand’s sexual assault and indictment against him, which they settled in 2006.
Dozens of other accusers have come forward since Cosby accused of similar abuse. Montgomery County Judge Stephen O’Neill just let one of them testify at Cosby’s first trial in 2017, which ended in a release.
In this September 24, 2018, file photo, Bill Cosby leaves after a conviction in Montgomery County Court.
(AP Photo / Matt Slocum)
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But a year later, after the #MeToo movement exploded in the throes of accusations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, the judge allowed five other accused to testify at trial. The jury convicted Cosby on all three counts of criminal sexual assault.
Before the various accusations against him, the actor and cabaret artist was known as ‘America’s Dad’ because of his role in the 1980s hit committee, “The Cosby Show.”
