I received a text message from a friend about Bill Cosby’s conviction being overturned. I went to my go-to news source. The top story:
There was nothing about Bill Cosby until one scrolled down “below the fold.”
Some details from the buried story:
In their 79-page opinion, the judges wrote that a “non-prosecution agreement” that had been struck with a previous prosecutor meant that Mr. Cosby should not have been charged in the case, and that he should be discharged. They barred a retrial in the case.
In 2005, Mr. Cosby was investigated in the case of Ms. Constand, and a former district attorney of Montgomery County had given Mr. Cosby his assurance that he would not be charged in the case. The former district attorney, Bruce Castor Jr., has testified that while there was insufficient evidence to bring a criminal prosecution, he had given Mr. Cosby the assurance to encourage him to testify in a subsequent civil case brought by Ms. Constand.
In that testimony, Mr. Cosby acknowledged giving quaaludes to women he was pursuing for sex — evidence that played a key part in his trial after Mr. Castor’s successors reopened the case and charged Mr. Cosby in December 2015. That was just days before the 12-year statute of limitations expired in the case, and it came amid a number of new accusations from women who bought similar accusations of drugging and sexual assault against Mr. Cosby.
“In light of these circumstances, the subsequent decision by successor D. A.s to prosecute Cosby violated Cosby’s due process rights,” the appeals ruling said. “No other conclusion comports with the principles of due process and fundamental fairness to which all aspects of our criminal justice system must adhere.”
Here’s a question for readers… how long will it be before some other state or the Feds charge Bill Cosby with some crime?
I would guess not given Cosby’s age and possible statute of limitations and other issues but the issue of the tag team approach between the Feds and states in placing defendants in double jeopardy is an important civil liberties issue — witness Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22.5 years for the murder of St. Floyd of Minneapolis and the feds then pile on with another prosecution — presumably because they think there is a real possibility that his conviction will be overturned because of what lawyers might call trial “irregularities.”
At basically the same time the House votes to remove Confederate statues from DC!!
Bill Cosby should have spent the rest of his life in prison because quaaludes were and are the wrong drug to use for sex. Cocaine and a little heroin maybe. Don’t screw around, ‘ludes are for dancing.
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Like Sigmund Freud, Bill Cosby spent his life grappling with the unconscious.
I don’t know, but I’ll bet the #MeToo phone lines, emails and social media addresses are lit up like a Christmas tree…I think there will be protests. Outside his residence, and outside the judge’s residence.
Now Harvey Weinstein is the big MeToo conviction. What if that gets reversed also?
Not just this, on NPR, CNN and a number of other news outlets, you still hear news about Trump and the Trump administration — all the bad things they did. Almost nothing about what the current White House is doing. Not only that, when the reporter is interviewing or reporting, you can clearly see how they are against anything to do with conservatism. Those stations are becoming like talk radio shows then news reporting.
Just one example. The issue of illegals at our southern boarder has gotten worse now then it was under Trump, we hear nothing about it those days but it was a daily news under Trump.
How can it be worse when there are more of them? Sanctuary cities are open!
You should probably be watching the Fox Entertainment Channel. They have all of that and more.