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Bill Cosby charged with felony assault over 2004 encounter with woman
Fox News ^ | December 30, 2015 | Fox News

Posted on 12/30/2015 7:31:49 AM PST by WhiskeyX

Bill Cosby was charged Wednesday with felony assault over an alleged encounter with a woman 12 years ago.

"We are here to announce today charges that have just been filed against William Henry Cosby. These charges stem from a sexual assault that took place on an evening in early 2004," Montgomery County district attorney Kevin Steel said in a press conference. "Mr. Cosby is charged with aggravated indecent assault. This is a felony charge."

Cosby is expected to be arraigned on the charge this afternoon in Elkins Park, Pa.

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To: WhiskeyX
Under certain circumstances a statute of limitations period may "toll," meaning to suspend, for the period of time while the plaintiff is legally barred from prosecuting the lawsuit.

That's true, but ...

1. This is a criminal case, not a civil lawsuit.

2. As far as I know, the only practical reason for the SOL to be tolled in a case like this would be if the perpetrator had left the country for an extended period of time. The SOL is automatically tolled if the defendant is out of the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts.

21 posted on 12/30/2015 7:42:45 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

“Good luck proving a he said/she said case from 12 years ago.”

Not necessarily, because Bill Cosby went on record during an interview/s with the law enforcement authorities while the case was still relatively fresh. Consequently, evidence was secured while before it could become compromised by the passage of time. Taken in context with the latest revelations, this earlier evidence may become presented as a pattern of behavior that includes Bill Cosby’s own admissions on the tape recorded and notarized interviews by law enforcement.


22 posted on 12/30/2015 7:44:45 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

Cosby's criticisms of poor blacks come back to haunt him


23 posted on 12/30/2015 7:45:43 AM PST by Bratch
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To: Chauncey Uppercrust

It certainly will - the parallesl are inescapable and Trump will be sure to point them out to all the media that will do their best to “escape “ them.


24 posted on 12/30/2015 7:47:20 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Still Thinking

Spare me the Cosby apologies.


25 posted on 12/30/2015 7:48:47 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: WhiskeyX
Truly sad. My wife and I loved Cosby. I went to one of his concerts in the 70s, had his acts on tapes, and later mp3.

His act was always clean and respectable and offered a solid family example to African Americans.

Sad to see one of the greats fall. :(

Do I believe that the accusations are true. Yes.

26 posted on 12/30/2015 7:49:13 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: WhiskeyX
How in the heck do you prove something that a victim says happened many years ago?
27 posted on 12/30/2015 7:49:45 AM PST by fwdude
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To: Alberta's Child

“That’s true, but ... “

It will be interesting to see how they deal with the Statute of Limitations. The situation also raises the question of whether or not the prosecution is designed to deliberately fail in order to remove the threat of such a future prosecution by an authority hostile to Bill Cosby. Another angle is to see if the prosecution is designed to be completed with a conviction before Obama must leave office as the President, so he can pardon Bill Cosby.


28 posted on 12/30/2015 7:49:54 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

29 posted on 12/30/2015 7:50:05 AM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: P.O.E.

Bill “acted a little too ‘white’” over the years. That’s his problem.


30 posted on 12/30/2015 7:50:39 AM PST by fwdude
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To: dfwgator

Mark Geragos and/or David Kendall


31 posted on 12/30/2015 7:51:52 AM PST by Chauncey Uppercrust (CRUZ/TRUMP 2016 OR BUST...RUBIO NO GOOD)
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To: WhiskeyX

Does anyone know if this is the same woman who accused him and got a settlement in civil court?

FReegards


32 posted on 12/30/2015 7:51:56 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: fwdude

“How in the heck do you prove something that a victim says happened many years ago?”

With evidence beyond a reasonable doubt in the form of Bill Cosby’s earlier interview statements to law enforcement authorities in which he acknowledged using drugs to incapacitate women. Also the witness testimonies of third parties describing Cosby’s doing so with other women, corroborating Cosby’s interview statements with respect to the plaintiff’s complaint.


33 posted on 12/30/2015 7:53:27 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: Alberta's Child

WMAL said the 12 year SOL was weeks from running out.


34 posted on 12/30/2015 7:53:36 AM PST by Don Hernando de Las Casas
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To: dhs12345

When you say african-Americans, do you mean black. By the way I’m a European-American.


35 posted on 12/30/2015 7:54:55 AM PST by Don Hernando de Las Casas
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To: WhiskeyX

WMAL says the 12 year SOL was just about to run out.


36 posted on 12/30/2015 7:55:30 AM PST by Don Hernando de Las Casas
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To: Chauncey Uppercrust
Mark Geragos and/or David Kendall

Dig up Johnny Cochran.

"If it's he-said/she-said, the charges be dead."

"And so am I"
37 posted on 12/30/2015 7:58:02 AM PST by mkjessup (JimRob: "It's Trump or Cruz, all the others are amnesty pimps" And the man is RIGHT!)
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To: fwdude

That explains the selective outrage.


38 posted on 12/30/2015 7:58:08 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas
When you say african-Americans, do you mean black. By the way I’m a European-American.

I'm a Southern-American and I love Lynyrd Skynyrd.
39 posted on 12/30/2015 7:59:18 AM PST by mkjessup (JimRob: "It's Trump or Cruz, all the others are amnesty pimps" And the man is RIGHT!)
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To: Rennes Templar

“Witnesses? Evidence? He said-she said?”

At the time Cosby was interviewed by police officers and admitted to using a drug/s in the plaintiff’s drink. He tried to spin the story to make it look innocent enough to skate on any efforts to charge him under a presumption of reasonable doubt. Much of that reasonable doubt has since been blown to pieces by the phenomenal number of women who have come forward publicly and involuntarily and privately during police investigations to give witness testimony of similar drugs and rape incidents establishing a pattern of behavior.


40 posted on 12/30/2015 7:59:48 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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