Posted on 01/14/2015 2:14:28 PM PST by conservative98
A model who claims Bill Cosby drugged and sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion met with Los Angeles police on Wednesday to pursue criminal charges against the comedian over the alleged 2008 incident.
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Just like Jerry Sandusky’s boys were just nattering and whining with no evidence and empty charges.
Let the court sort it out, just like they did in the OJ Simpson case. They did such a wonderful job with that one. I don’t need a judicial system that makes mistakes all the time to tell me how to think. Thank God he gave most people common sense to figure things out.
“...it’s not because of its superior library.”
I duuno, they must have every copy of Playboy from issue #1 forward!
Well said. I don’t know how all these Cosby defenders function in society. They act like they never give an opinion on anything unless they have DNA or video to back it up. Thank God he gave most people common sense to decide things for themselves.
I often bring up the Sandusky case to the Cosby defenders because it is so similar to the Cosby case as far as evidence is concerned. The Sandusky case had zero physical evidence, yet most people believed he was guilty. I don’t remember ever reading a post with anyone defending Jerry. I ask all the Cosby defenders to defend Jerry the same way and I never get a response. It’s interesting that they don’t have anything to say.
Exactly! I’m sure you felt the same way about the Jerry Sandusky case. How were any of the charges against Sandusky in any way, shape, or form provable at that point?
I’m sure you felt the same way about Jerry Sandusky and the “Let’s Make a Buck on Jerry” sl__wagon.
Didn’t you?
You need to get your facts straight. Beverly Johnson did not go to the Playboy mansion. She went to Cosby’s home, I believe in NYC, the one he lived in with his wife and kids. She had been there before with her young daughter for lunch. She trusted him and had no reason not to.
Some of Jerry Sandusky’s victims said he was rough with them and made them wrestle with him. Was any of this reported or proved? NO!!! None of them reported this and it was never proved.
Please tell me how you stood up for Sandusky’s legal rights. I really want to hear it.
In the Sandusky case there was at least one independent eyewitness and his victims testified under oath and were cross examined by Sandusky’s attorneys. After that a jury of his peers unanimously found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
If people can’t see the difference between that and people making allegations on “The View”, I don’t know what to say.
Also, these women were adults at the time they claim they were raped. That makes them for less easy to manipulate and far more capable of filing timely police reports and having physical evidence than the boys Sandusky was buggering.
Cosby could well be guilty of many of the charges, but to date, no evidence has been presented.
There were 2 independent eyewitnesses who saw Sandusky buggering boys in the shower. Many of his victims filed police reports soon after the abuse. Eight of them testified under oath and were cross examined. His own adopted son was also prepared to testify that Sandusky abused him.
He admitted to showering naked with a boy in 1998 and also made incriminating comments in media interviews.
There were mountains of credible evidence against Sandusky.
Beverly Johnson claims she went to Cosby’s home. She has not even proven she ever met him.
I also find her claim that she took one sip of the coffee and knew it was drugged and then took another sip rather odd.
She provided no date of the alleged incident and had no acting roles for about 5 years before and 5 years after the mid 1980s when she places the incident. It seems strange that she would even be on Cosby’s radar at that time.
I also think it strange that she would believe there would such an intense and personal casting process to basically be a glorified extra on one episode.
I wouldn’t be shocked if some of his accusers are telling the truth, but I don’t find her to be very credible.
This is as it should be - there is a specific accusation that is formalized in a specific charge that will be presented before a court with a judge and a jury, with the standard of guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
If, after presentation of evidence and giving of testimony, Cosby is found guilty, he should be imprisoned, if acquitted, unless someone else wants to file a criminal charge, folks should shut up.
I resist the idea that one can move from general to specific then back as it suits the argument. I also resist blurring the line between opinion and law.
We are talking about public opinion, what we think may have happened.
Credible accusers have made credible accusations. I believe them.
I assume he's guilty of being a serial rapist.
Does that mean he's automatically guilty of every accusation? No, and that's my position.
In the bigger picture, once it's been established that he's a serial rapist, does the actual number matter, as far as his reputation? Is 87 any different than 8?
I have a sense I'm being accused of defending the indefensible. What, actually?
Please tell me what the mountain of credible evidence was in the Sandusky case. There was actually no physical evidence at all. Sandusky was convicted solely on several of the charges by the victims’ testimony of what happened to them. Those victims had no evidence to prove anything they said.
Some of the boys could not even remember which YEAR it happened or how old they were. Jerry Sandusky got convicted on some of the charges with the prosecutors GUESSING the date. (You must be REALLY upset about that, since you need to know the exact date of the Cosby rapes.)
The two eyewitnesses that you speak so highly of? The coach initially testified UNDER OATH he saw Sandusky raping a boy in the wrong month and YEAR that he first said it happened. How credible is that witness?
And the other witness that supposedly saw Jerry in the shower with another boy? He couldn’t testify because he had DEMENTIA. He couldn’t even identify the boy at the time and NEVER CALLED THE POLICE. How credible is that—a witness that never called the police?
By the way, (this is REALLY going to outrage you), Sandusky got convicted on that charge without the name of the victim ever being identified. The police never found him or ever spoke to him and they never had any physical evidence that a rape ever happened! He got convicted of raping someone that never ever said Sandusky raped him and may never have existed!
You also state that the boys filed police reports after the abuse. That’s incorrect. Many of them never did and it wasn’t until years later that they spoke to the police. One even denied that it happened to him and had even written letters to Sandusky comparing him to family.
You sound like you believe he raped the adopted son. That’s comical. Where’s the physical evidence of that? Where are the police reports and DNA? We’re supposed to believe him because he says so? How do you know he’s just not an ungrateful child with mental problems because of being adopted and is out for money?
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