Thursday, March 28, 2024

Bill Cosby Already Working on Prison Release and Getting Rape Sentence, Judge Tossed

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Bill Cosby is lead out of court in hadcuffs after his sentencing (09-25-18)

*It hasn’t even been 2 weeks since Bill Cosby was sentenced to 3-10 years in the big house for the sexual assault of Andrea Constand in 2004, but now lawyers for the disgraced funnyman are making moves to get him released from imprisonment as well as getting his sentence, along with the judge in the case, thrown out.

Now that’s positive thinking, Mr. Cosby. However, we highly doubt it will work, but we shall see.

“The defendant, William H. Cosby, Jr., moves this Court for a new trial in the interest of justice, or at least for reconsideration and modification of the sentence imposed on September 25, 2018,” a defense motion filed in Pennsylvania state court on Oct. 5 and made public this weekend declares.

Not only was Cosby given time in state prison (in Pennyslvania), he was formally labeled as a sexually violent predator by Judge Steven O’Neil at the Sept. 24-25 sentencing hearing in Norristown, PA.

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Denied home arrest or bail Cosby already had an appeal attorney in the courtroom with him and promises of filing a motion on the matter — as he now has, reports the Associated Press:

Having gained zero traction at the Supreme Court with his duo of petitions, this new-ish document cites a litany of supposed errors on the part of Judge O’Neil in both the initial mistrial of 2017, the retrial of this spring and the sentencing hearing late last month. Among those and other arguments that have floundered in previous motions and incarnations, Cosby’s latest set of attorneys Joseph Green, Jr. and Peter Goldberger additionally claim that a vital taped piece of evidence was “not authentic,” the statute of limitations on the crime may have expired and that testimony from five other accusers at the criminal retrial “violated the defendant’s right at sentencing.”

Contained in those arguments is also a renewed attack on Judge O’Neill after he twice before refuted their desire to see him recuse himself from the case.

“For the reasons detailed in Mr. Cosby’s previously-filed motions for recusal (which are incorporated here by reference, without being repeated and set forth at length), and for all the foregoing reasons, a reasonable observer could question the impartiality of the judge who imposed the September 25, 2018, sentence,” the 10-page wide-ranging filing says. “Accordingly, Judge O’Neill should have recused himself from imposing sentence,” it throws in.

You can MORE of this AP report on Bill Cosby at Deadline.

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