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Race dominates fraught jury selection in Bill Cosby sexual-assault trial
The Washington Post (Jeff Bezos' Blog) ^ | 23 May 17 | Manuel Roig-Franzia

Posted on 06/17/2017 4:08:31 AM PDT by SkyPilot

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To: Az Joe

Again, you’re a child. A moronic and hysterical one at that.

Nothing good to contribute but threats and insults.

GFU child!


81 posted on 06/17/2017 11:33:49 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: trebb
I don’t suppose the time lag between the alleged event(s) and the complaint, along with changing stories has anything to do with it. My heart says he’s guilty but my brain recognizes that there has not beenh proof beyond reasonable doubt and that to work properly, our Justice system demands that it is better to let a 100 guilty go free than to wrongly punish one innocent - hence the requirement to prove beyond reasonable doubt....vs. convincing folks with emotional diatribes.

Exactly, and if they can convict a wealthy black celebrity with nothing but emotion, imagine what the state will do to the average American who refuses to toe the progressive line.

83 posted on 06/17/2017 11:46:04 AM PDT by Valpal1 (I am enjoying the lamentations of their girly-men on social media.)
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To: HypatiaTaught

Think about the obvious flipside. In your zeal to catch and punish criminals it’s okay for the power of the state to occassionally grind up the innocent?

This is why self defense is always a personal responsibilty. By demanding a justice system that has a low or non-existant standard of evidence, you may eventually become a victim of it.

You have a better chance of defending yourself against the occasional criminal that skated than you do a government that has no limits.


84 posted on 06/17/2017 12:05:08 PM PDT by Valpal1 (I am enjoying the lamentations of their girly-men on social media.)
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To: Az Joe

So you are a troll!


86 posted on 06/17/2017 12:24:51 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Yeah, just like I thought, you’re all mouth.


87 posted on 06/17/2017 12:56:59 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: SkyPilot

I have a friend that was a driver for movies, theater and events in New York City. As you might image he is clean cut, well dressed and polite. He’s driven many stars and was (a then young) Tom Cruise’s personal driver for the length of a movie shoot in New York City.

He’ll readily tell you, the nastiest person he ever dealt with by far was Bill Cosby.


88 posted on 06/17/2017 1:55:00 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: JAKraig
To me the women that are complaining after willingly participating by taking drugs in a married mans bed room got what they wanted, intimacy with a star

I don't know the particulars in this woman's case, which is the only one on trial right now due to statute of limitations or whatever else. However, having read a number of accounts from the other women who were accused, by no means did all of them willingly take drugs -- he slipped them into their beverages, not all of which were alcohol. A couple of the females were very young and even had the support of their mothers in having Cosby mentor their careers, and the behavior described was conscious "grooming" by Cosby of the young women on the implied or stated promise of getting to work on his television programs, two of which were definitely famlily-friendly and G-rated, especially the Huxtables one.

Also, a man of his wealth has had the opportunity to paint any woman he may have taken advantage of in the worst possible light. He admitted before this trial that he used drugs to soften up his sexual targets. So, it's not a cut-and-dried situation by any means.

Also, if you have ever heard or seen the videos of any of his live shows, they were filthy dirty-mouthed, in very great contrast to the wholesome Dr. Huxtable image.

And what's with his wife? Articles about these accusations appeared a number of times in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and he was gossiped about there in his home town for decades. Why did Camille put up with it? She was quoted in a magazine interview as saying, more or less, that's just how men are—men are —so whatever. She accepted no responsibility, like Hillary, for enabling him to present himself as a nice family man.

Therefore let's give the woman a fair hearing. She may well have been taken advantage of.

89 posted on 06/17/2017 2:58:17 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: tflabo
She should have settled out of court and wound up with some funds. What the Coz did was wrong but she’s no innocent flower of virtual purity either.

What is your evidence for your claims about her?

90 posted on 06/17/2017 3:01:19 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I believe they went there under their own volition and Cosby’s kink was to drug and take them. I believe they knew the outcome before they went there.


91 posted on 06/17/2017 3:11:36 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: cherry

Went to famous guys house or hotel . Not diner and a show. Right to famous rich guys house.
No Muslim bs but celebrity f***ers and/or gold diggers.
Cosby’s kinkiness is gross and more than disturbing but hey. It’s typical Hollywood crap.


92 posted on 06/17/2017 3:18:29 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Az Joe

GFY troll!


93 posted on 06/18/2017 10:12:33 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: Vaquero

I don’t really have skin in the game either way and I could care less. On one hand the revolving door on rape victims coming out of the woodwork 30 years later and on the other, the same story with “drugs” for every single victim which makes it seem logical that he could have actually been this sick to do this. Cosby has a history of playing the race card several times also.

Sad story either way.


94 posted on 06/18/2017 10:20:05 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: cherry
I'm just telling you the truth. If you don't like it, too bad.

I tried cases for almost 20 years. The simple fact is that people with no business, management, or analytical experience, especially those who are young and are still living at home, do not do well on juries.

Jurors have job qualifications like any other job. A person without any "real life" experience in the business world is a loose cannon on a jury. They run purely on emotion, argue with everybody, call everybody names, and then pout and refuse to deliberate when they don't get their way.

Usually if there is only one, the other 11 can make her see reason. But not always. If the deliberations of the Cosby jury manage to leak out, I think you'll see that very dynamic in action.

95 posted on 06/18/2017 6:20:10 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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