Posted on 04/26/2018 6:35:32 AM PDT by conservative98
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — As rapt jurors listened to the judge overseeing Bill Cosby’s sex assault retrial read back prior testimony, the entertainer’s lead lawyer snoozed in his chair.
Tom Mesereau, mouth open, drifted in and out of consciousness Wednesday as Judge Steven O’Neill read pages and pages of Cosby’s own words about Quaaludes and his sexual contact with accuser Andrea Constand into the record.
Cosby, now 80, sat for the civil deposition over 2004 and 2005, in connection with a lawsuit Constand filed against him that would later be settled for $3.4 million.
Mesereau slept at the defense table for some 30 minutes, and awoke as the testimony from the deposition was still being read. His nap was not commented on by the judge or anyone in the courtroom.
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Like client, like lawyer?
That is funny... mouth open, head lolling.
Maybe laying the groundwork for a claim of ineffective counsel ... (?)
Grounds for mistrial?
Maybe Cosby slipped a Lude in the lawyer’s coffee.
"Take two Xanax and appeal in the morning." I hadn't thought of that.
Is the lawyer named, “Vinny”?
“... slipped a lude in the lawyer’s coffee”.
Post of the Day ! :)
Re: His nap was not commented on by the judge or anyone in the courtroom.
I can’t believe the judge said nothing. Seems to me to be dereliction of duty on his part. If Cosby loses and the case is appealed because the judge let his lawyer sleep in his courtroom, it will be the judge’s fault.
Imagine the judge in My Cousin Vinny letting a defense attorney or anyone else sleep in his courtroom!
Not really seeing a problem here.
WORST......MATLOCK.......EPISODE.......EVER!!!!
Coz has trouble with vision. Did he spike his attorney’s drink??
The lawyer’s last coherent words: “Hey, Cosby, can you hand me my coffee?”
“. . . a claim of ineffective counsel.” That was my first thought too. Or maybe Cos dropped something in his coffee cup. “It’ll help you to relax.”
LOL! And on the Supreme Court at that.
Maybe he was aiming for the cute associate's cup and missed (all bigtime lawyers have younger, cuter associates)?
I know where the comments are going on this thread.
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