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Why The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Was Right To Toss Bill Cosby’s Tainted Conviction
The Federalist ^ | July 1, 2021 | Margot Cleveland

Posted on 07/01/2021 8:30:38 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Cosby admitted that, after Constand complained she couldn’t sleep, he gave her **one-and-a-half Benadryl pills**. Cosby also acknowledged **fondling Constand*, but he insisted that she had not resisted or asked him to stop.

When being doped not much she could do no doubt he’s a friend of Harvey that many women can’t be wrong it sounds like a huge pay off.


21 posted on 07/01/2021 9:30:32 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Cboldt

That is how I read it too. The article is also wrong in that Cosby never could have been “forced” to testify in any court - not the civil court or criminal. He could have claimed 5th amendment rts in both courts. The civil court would have ruled, though, that his denial to testify via 5th amendment rts would have been a tacit admission but it would not be an admission in the criminal cases.


22 posted on 07/01/2021 9:33:47 AM PDT by Oystir
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To: mware

I think he is guilty BUT the government poisoned the well.


Of course he’s guilty. But the government’s actions made that moot as far as prosecuting him goes.


23 posted on 07/01/2021 9:37:18 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

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24 posted on 07/01/2021 9:42:26 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Kaslin
...the courts saw to it that he endured two criminal trials, at which multiple women testified that he sexually assaulted him—with much of that testimony likely inappropriately admitted—and then the courts allowed Cosby to waste away in prison for nearly three years while his appeal percolated.

This is wrong. Dead wrong. Terrible take by a purported conservative site. The process of navigating the justice system itself cannot be used as punishment (as it is being used in DC right now with the people arrested for demonstrated at the Capitol in January.) If someone with Cosby's resources can be raked over the coals for years and financially burdened as a sort of "in lieu of" process punishment because a criminal case can't be successfully brought against him by a prosecutor, what chance do you think the average Joe has of avoiding a similar fate?

25 posted on 07/01/2021 9:44:34 AM PDT by jz638
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To: Kaslin

The “conviction” was the high water mark of the “Me, too” movement’s war on manhood.


26 posted on 07/01/2021 9:45:08 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Kaslin

Guilty or not, the investigating and prosecuting didn’t begin until his speeches about black culture and responsibility. Either he prevailed or he has paid his penance.


27 posted on 07/01/2021 9:55:09 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: mikey_hates_everything

I made a similar defense of Ellen DeGeneres, what, so what celebrities aren’t douchebags? Why was she singled out? I trace it back to being photographed with W.


28 posted on 07/01/2021 9:56:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kaslin
On June 30, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court tossed the criminal sexual assault conviction against Bill Cosby, concluding that the 2005 decision by District Attorney Bruce Castor not to prosecute Cosby for the alleged sexual assault of Andrea Constand barred Pennsylvania from later charging Cosby with that crime.

What a stupid assertion. Failure to prosecute is not double jeopardy ...plenty of folks are prosecuted later if more evidence surfaces

29 posted on 07/01/2021 9:58:20 AM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it’s about them )
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To: Reno89519

Too bad the prosecutors are too incompetent to run a legit trial.


This isn’t incompetency. It’s misconduct.


30 posted on 07/01/2021 10:02:14 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Kaslin

See how it works ladies...You just have to know someone.


31 posted on 07/01/2021 10:03:11 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Kaslin
The four-justice majority concluded that while Castor had not provided Cosby immunity from prosecution, the state had violated Cosby’s due process rights by charging him after the original district attorney committed not to prosecute Cosby in order to force him to testify in Constand’s civil case. The court held that “[i]n light of these circumstances, the subsequent decision by successor D.A.s to prosecute Cosby violated Cosby’s due process rights. No other conclusion comports with the principles of due process and fundamental fairness to which all aspects of our criminal justice system must adhere.”

Makes more sense.....even though he was guilty as hell looks like,.....many times

32 posted on 07/01/2021 10:04:55 AM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it’s about them )
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To: Alberta's Child

Actually his attorney prolly advised given the peculiarity of the civil process over lack of criminal pursuit that he be candid and pay the money

And get immunity

Which ultimately he did....did not work out ....perfectly...3 years in jail and prison

Better than the 20 he deserved


33 posted on 07/01/2021 10:07:13 AM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it’s about them )
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To: Kaslin

BENADRYL IS NOT BLUE


34 posted on 07/01/2021 10:15:26 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: conservative98

No he didn’t. He admitted that quaaludes wine and sex happened in consensual encounters. That is a huge swath of the 1970s and 80s.
By your standard every time a woman drinks 3 big glasses of wine, it’s rape.

What happened is that a bunch of golddiggers went to the bedroom of a very rich and powerful man in the entertainment business and got drunk and popped pills with him. They couldn’t care less that he was married. When their projects or careers didn’t take off or they didn’t become the next Mrs. Cosby, they found Gloria Allred and tried to get paid.

He didn’t rape anyone and never said he did.


35 posted on 07/01/2021 10:16:58 AM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: ronniesgal

Exactly. It was after he got famous for that “pull up your pants” speech to young black men that he was targeted.


36 posted on 07/01/2021 10:18:04 AM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: conservative98

I gave quaaludes to women....they asked for them

They raped me...figuratively

Girls liked quaaludes in the 70s

It’s not appropriate to drug girls surreptitiously with whatever

Rofinal or methaqualone or placydils etc

Who wants to have to force women anyhow

Isn’t the point for them to want you...purring and cooing...

I never even understand all the first second and third base pleadings

Quaaludes made an interested girl less inhibited

Same for men

Like alcohol with less side effects though don’t mix the two much....dangerous

I had dates that was first question ....did you get them?

After I opened door and they reached over and opened mine....a good omen

My answer was you darn skippy, momma didn’t raise no turnip

Quaaludes would be the perfect drug for post menopausal lack of sexual desire some ladies experience

Here’s your vitamin and you hot cocoa sweetie....

30 minutes later she acts like you’re Brad Pitt and she’s been in a convent 30 years

I’m not kidding

Feminists bra burners hated quaaludes

Made women sybarites


37 posted on 07/01/2021 10:18:12 AM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it’s about them )
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To: conservative98

By the way, after he “raped” that woman, you know what she did? She kept hanging out with him for another 6 months, and even brought her parents to meet him.

I know I would do that if someone raped and degraded me. /s


38 posted on 07/01/2021 10:19:48 AM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: Erik Latranyi

There should never be plea deals with criminals.


39 posted on 07/01/2021 10:20:42 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: DesertRhino

What’s the statute of limitations for rape in PA?


40 posted on 07/01/2021 10:25:43 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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