Posted on 07/11/2021 6:26:32 AM PDT by ScubaDiver
Bill Cosby's spokesman has said he hopes to recoup damages for wrongful incarceration from the state of Pennsylvania, and accused attorneys for the comedian's accusers of having 'an ax to grind against black men.'
Cosby was released from prison on June 30 after serving two years behind bars, when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated his 2018 conviction for sexual assault, citing violations of his due process rights.
Now, his publicist Andrew Wyatt says that Cosby hopes to win 'a couple hundred grand' in compensation for the time he spend behind bars on the now-vacated conviction.
'We are looking at what recourse, what legal recourse we can take against the state of Pennsylvania,' Wyatt told The Domenick Nati Show in an interview on Friday. 'We are looking at all legal angles for those things right now.'
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Have you listened to some of the accusers? Many of the woman said they went up to his hotel room for what they thought was an actors business meeting.
They also said they were given a beverage and then remember nothing until waking up later to find Cosby had had sex with them while they were asleep.
There were many who said this. They did not all knowingly take drugs. And even some who did said they did not expect it to make them unconscious. I mean who takes recreational drugs to go unconscious?
Also how did Cosby obtain illegal drugs?
Yes, they did because Cos had spoken out that blacks are underachieving and can do better. That conflicts with the Democrat's position that blacks cannot achieve unless helped by them.
I believe there is more going on here than just what we see.
I forget what it was, but very liberal Cosby said something once that was surprisingly Conservative.
Ellen DeGeneres made the mistake of being seen publicly with George Bush, a Republican. She later defended being friends with him.
Both of them Immediately got attacked and persecuted for it.
Bottom line: Warning to all liberals- don’t step one single toe out of line.
Nobody is taking Quaaludes to make anything "more exciting". They're a powerful sedative, not a stimulant.
This is simply a paper thin alibi.
Even with criminal immunity he didn't want to openly confess the real motivation for drugging his victims.
That may be 100% correct, but I believe it still makes my point.
If I commit a crime and the victim sues me in civil court, I can understand that civil case being put on hold until the criminal court gets done.
Not the other way around.
I would never expect the criminal court to defer prosecution, and make a deal with me to avoid prosecution, in deference to my civil case.
PS. Look at OJ Simpson. Found not guilty in the criminal case. Still lost in the civil case.
The women he raped and molested should sue him for ever y thing he might win in his lawsuit
For what it’s worth, if I had been on the jury then the voluntary consumption of drugs would have weighed heavily against a conviction of Cosby — not because the girl deserves to be a crime victim just because she ingested drugs voluntarily, but because it immediately introduced an enormous degree of reasonable doubt about: (1) what happened, and (2) whether she was a victim or a consensual party.
That's exactly right. The Fifth Amendment protects someone in both criminal and civil courts, but the civil case should have been deferred because this sort of thing weighs very heavily in a civil court.
A few years ago I worked for a client who won a civil case because the defendant was placed in a position of jeopardy due to a potential criminal aspect of the case. Basically, the defendant had to concede the civil case by testifying, in effect: "I admit that I was liable in this case, but I wasn't a criminal. I was just an 'effing moron."
This is the stupid can of worms many states opened when they extended -- or even eliminated -- the statutes of limitations for sex abuse cases.
What the government can and can not do is based on state law. In OJ’s case, since the criminal trial had already been held, he was not going to give anything up as a result of the civil case. In this case, apparently, the prosecutor thought that not prosecuting criminally would enhance the win probability of the civil case. He also reasoned he didn’t meet the standard required for a win in a criminal case. He was doing what he thought would be the best given that the civil case would have been weak.
He’s not innocent. He’s a scumbag.
Other than, for example, the right to a trial by jury and habeas corpus, as provided by the Magna Carta, you mean?
It’s too bad the taxpayers can’t recoup the wasted taxpayer money from the corrupt, over-ambitious, servant-of-political-correctness prosecutor.
I know that many FReepers think he’s guilty and disgusting. I’m disappointed in him for committing adultery, and for being a part of the “Hollywood System”, but I also believe that the women accusing him were either really stupid, or knew to expect what they got. You don’t go to a man’s hotel room or home, if he’s there by himself, for any wholesome reason. Hollywood is completely corrupt and jaded, and women there know what the score is, and the price they’re expected to pay to get ahead. Some refuse, and get ahead, anyway, but I think most pay the price. What he did was different than Weinstein, who allegedly used physical force to restrain women who were foolish enough to go to his home or hotel room. As for Cosby, did he lace their drinks with benadryl, or did they take it willingly? I guess if they were foolish enough to go in the first place, they were also foolish enough to drink alcohol and take benadryl with it.
Lastly, I think the real reason they threw the book at him is for his public views on the black family. And, maybe he lost his compass when his only son was killed.
What does Brown say?
So, will the 1/06 Protestors who have been inhumanely punished by having their Constitutionally protected Civil Rights stripped from them while being placed in Solitary Confinement in the DC Gulag for past six Months (without the benefit of Bail) be able to Sue the Federal Government when all is said and done?
Maybe if they were Black Comedians or Black former Football Players...
some of those women who were “asking for it”
went to his home and had dinner with him and the lovely Camille.
You think a “really stupid woman” can be raped because she’s really stupid.
So if some neighbor invites me over for dinner with him and his wife, he should expect to have sex with me later that evening, and I should see that dinner with him at home, with his wife, is clearly a signal that i am going to have sex later or else I am stupid.
Okay.
Of course not. And I’m a woman, BTW.
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