Posted on 03/07/2022 4:27:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
The U.S. Supreme Court quietly announced Monday that it would not review Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case, leaving him a free man and ending a two-decade legal drama that shifted the cultural landscape, destroyed the groundbreaking Black actor’s reputation, and sent him to prison for several years late in life.
The high court, without comment, declined to review a stunning decision out of Pennsylvania that released Cosby from prison in June over the word of a former prosecutor who said he had made a secret promise to Cosby’s lawyers that he would never be charged.
A Cosby spokesperson expressed “sincere gratitude to the justices” on behalf of Cosby and his family for the announcement and said he was the victim of “a reprehensible bait and switch” by the district attorney and judge in the case.
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A deal is a deal.
If prosecutors don’t have to abide by agreements they make, it will have bad ramifications beyond Bill Cosby.
I agree.
I’m not a fan of Cosby either but persecution was pretty sleazy.
justice is finally served, we all knew Bill was a player, and the victims were uber players...
“secret promise”
Any competent defense attorney would get the promise in writing.
They made a deal. Evidence they collected after that from him was covered under the deal.
Don’t agree with what he did, but don’t agree with the prosecution either.
It doesn’t make Cosby any less of a creepy perverted scumbag.
If his crimes were as pervasive as they say, shouldn't there be other charges they pursue?
Perhaps, but was it criminal?
Sorry, I think mostly he was RRed due to his unPC admonishments 20 years ago.
Have some Jello pudding and fahgeddaboudit.
What does matter is a deal was made and then reneged on.
Our justice system is unstable enough. It does not need any more bricks to fall.
Bill Cosby: Address at the NAACP’ on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education [EXCERPT]
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/billcosbypoundcakespeech.htm
delivered 17 May 2004, Constitution Hall, Washington D.C.
Ladies and gentlemen, these people set — they opened the doors, they gave us the right, and today, ladies and gentlemen, in our cities and public schools we have 50% drop out. In our own neighborhood, we have men in prison. No longer is a person embarrassed because they’re pregnant without a husband. No longer is a boy considered an embarrassment if he tries to run away from being the father of the unmarried child.
Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower middle economic people are not holding their end in this deal. In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on. In the old days, you couldn’t hooky school because every drawn shade was an eye. And before your mother got off the bus and to the house, she knew exactly where you had gone, who had gone into the house, and where you got on whatever you had one and where you got it from. Parents don’t know that today.
I’m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was two? Where were you when he was twelve? Where were you when he was eighteen, and how come you don’t know he had a pistol? And where is his father, and why don’t you know where he is? And why doesn’t the father show up to talk to this boy?
The church is only open on Sunday. And you can’t keep asking Jesus to ask doing things for you. You can’t keep asking that God will find a way. God is tired of you. God was there when they won all those cases — fifty in a row. That’s where God was because these people were doing something. And God said, “I’m going to find a way.” I wasn’t there when God said it — I’m making this up. But it sounds like what God would do.
trump likes Russian whores peeing on obamas bed...
Hey hey hey!
No Brainer action by SCOTUS.
Indeed.
Even the three liberal judges had enough !
But as they say, the prosecution is the punishment !
Cosby was destroyed.
Cosby deserves to be a social pariah. At least he isn’t I’m prison and still has boatloads of money.
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