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*If you’re wondering whether Bill Cosby will serve time for his recent conviction, the answer is maybe or maybe not. We do know he’ll be sentenced within 75 days. However, in the meantime, he must undergo a “sexually violent predator assessment,” Judge Steven O’Neill ordered on Friday.
Judge O’Neill issued the order a day after the Cosby was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004. He also put the disgraced comedian on house arrest inside his Philadelphia home while he’s out on bail and ordered him to wear a GPS monitor.
The bad news for 80-year-old Cosby is that he faces up to 30 years in lockdown. On the other hand, if he is given time, legal experts said he most likely will spend less time than that behind bars, and there’s a very real possibility that he may not ever be incarcerated.
Why, you ask? It’s mostly to do with his defense team’s plan to appeal the guilty verdict — likely on the grounds that the decision to allow five other accusers to testify in the trial unfairly prejudiced the jury.
Cosby’s attorney, Tom Mesereau, will probably ask the court that his client be given home confinement during the appeal, which could take months or even years, CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson said.
“I think he’ll ask the court and do whatever he needs to, to have his client remain out at liberty until these issues are decided, whether it was appropriate to allow all those accusers to testify, and how prejudicial and unfair would that be,” Jackson said.
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In other news, funnyman Faizon Love is comparing Cosby to Emmitt Till and Michael Jackson. Till, for those who don’t know their black history, was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him whistling at her.
After Cosby’s verdict, here’s what Love posted to social media,
“Do you know the difference between Emmett Till case and @BillCosby case, not one got damn thing”
Comparing Cosby to the late pop star, he continue
” I remember they took Micheal Jackson to court for alleged child Sexual abuse but he was found innocent, so they killed him…”
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