Posted on 07/02/2015 4:30:00 PM PDT by rickyrikardo
Bill Cosby will not be charged in connection with actress Lili Bernard’s allegations that the comedian sexually assaulted her in Atlantic City in the early 1990s.
“The office of the Atlantic County Prosecutor has terminated its investigation, closed its file and so notified Ms. Bernard’s lawyer,” Edwin J. Jacobs, Jr., Cosby’s New Jersey attorney at Jacobs & Barbone, said via a release.
When Bernard first spoke with police this past May, her case appeared to be a lynchpin in the ongoing Cosby scandal due to New Jersey’s lack of a statute of limitations on rape. However, that change in law only dates back to 1996, and Bernard’s incident allegedly occurred before that year.
“Whatever she was claiming was far beyond the applicable statute of limitations,” Jacobs said. “That was my analysis and the analysis of the Atlantic County Prosecutor.”
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Didn’t know rape had a statute of limitations.
In which country had you been living?
Cosby gets off Scott FREE........ (for now..)
Except for the people that KNOWS he’s guilty as sin..
and won’t give him the time of day..
(and will piss on his grave)..
Where you there?
Does rape have a statute of limitations?
I thought that heinous crimes didn’t.
black privilege? 1 down, 36 or so to go.
Most everything has except murder. It’s the years that make the difference. Usually 10 years and/or less.
Yeah. Pretty much everywhere has an SOL for rape. Usually somewhere between 3-7 years unless the victim is a minor or disabled and then it doesn’t start running until they are 18 and/or the disability is gone.
Yes. It does. Probably in every jurisdiction.
When Bernard first spoke with police this past May, her case appeared to be a lynchpin in the ongoing Cosby scandal due to New Jersey's lack of a statute of limitations on rape. However, that change in law only dates back to 1996, and Bernard's incident allegedly occurred before that year.I'm sure the black rioting mob will be demanding "justice" regardless of this "technicality" in 5, 4, 3...
Nov 24, 2014 - Nationwide, 34 states and Washington, DC, have statutes of limitations
on filing rape or sexual-assault charges, ranging from 3 to 30 years.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=states+with+statute+of+limitations+on+rape
Dozens of women have been there, he already settled out of court in 2006 for a 2004 drugging/rape. Thirteen other Jane Does came forward willing to testify against him, for that trial.
So, we have Freepers defending an obvious serial rapists. Must be free traitors too.
This guy probably did do at least some of these things in view of the number of claims against him. That being said, if a person does not have the willingness to come forward and make a timely claim to the police, then coming out of the woodwork many years later, is useless.
And, I do not buy the excuse that “nobody would have believed me.” Get you butt to a police station, get to a hospital and be tested. If you do not have the guts to do that then shame on you. It seems to me that many, if not all of these women, decided it was more in their financial interest to keep quiet than to step forward and do the right thing.
Everything has a statute of limitations with the exception of murder and kidnapping.
It’s obvious that most of these women just quietly endured, in anonymity.
Way to go after dozens of rape and sexual assault victims, many in their 60s and 70 now.
This isn’t like the evidence of rape against Bill Clinton, the evidence against Cosby is massive.
It’s probably a good thing in the big picture to have statutes of limitations for things that aren’t murder - especially these days when a person can have consensual sex, then decide later that maybe it was a mistake and then bring up charges. While it lets some guilty go, it is also going to save some innocents. The Justice system is supposed to be predicated on the philosophy that it is better to let 100 guilty go than to wrongly convict one innocent and many case that are old never had data/evidence collection done when the crime supposedly happened which means that testimony is highly untrustworthy..
1000 accusations do not prove 1 is true. The chance of rape doesn’t increase with each additional accusation. Otherwise we would have laws automatically convicting people after the Nth accusation.
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