*The drama continues in the legal case surrounding Bill Cosby.
According to TheWrap.com, one of Cosby’s accusers, Andrea Constand, and her attorneys filed legal papers on Monday (Aug. 3), accusing the embattled comedian of waging a “thinly veiled defamation campaign” against her.
The New York Times highlighted a portion of the deposition in a recent report in July, despite obtaining the full transcript of the deposition. Legal papers filed in July by Cosby’s legal team accuse Constand of breaching her confidentiality agreement with the comedian and suggesting that Constand and her team might have played a part in the leak of the deposition Cosby gave in 2005, requesting discovery to prove that they did, TheWrap reports..
News of the leak generated recent headlines while influencing public opinion on Cosby. Constand’s sexual assault lawsuit against the funnyman was ultimately settled in 2006. Cosby’s team is requesting discovery to prove that Constand’s legal team had a hand in leaking the information, a claim Constand’s legal team dismissed in its filing.
“Neither counsel was aware of, or had participated in the release of any testimony,” the papers read. “In fact, [Constand’s] counsel believed that Defendant had orchestrated its release.”
“A simple phone call to the court reporting service which released the deposition should have been sufficient to allay [Cosby’s] ‘suspicions’ and cause his counsel to forgo filing a meritless claim,” the papers added.
Constand’s team countered claims made by Cosby and his lawyers, saying that they are trying to bury Constand with motions.
“Each motion is more vitriolic than the last, and all these motions do is create a circus atmosphere that brings disrepute upon the profession of law,” the papers said while noting that , adding that Constand “requests that the court stop Defendant’s thinly veiled defamation campaign under the guise of ‘legal motions’ and sanction defense counsel.”
In addition to defamation, the legal papers go on to accuse Cosby attorney Patrick O’Connor, who it said “exhibited open hostility toward [Constand’s] counsel.”
“His conduct was indefensible and now he seeks to ‘sling mud’ in an attempt to divert attention from his own bad conduct,” the papers added.
Accusations made by Constand’s team have been denied by Cosby’s attorney, Martin Singer. Monday’s filing by Constand’s team is the latest development as Cosby stands accused of sexual assaulting and drugging women.
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