Posted on 07/01/2021 8:30:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
Cosby was convicted by a lynch mob incited by our Pravda media.
While I despise the PA Supreme Court, it ruled correctly.
The previous DA made a plea agreement with Cosby that if he told the details, he would not face criminal charges.
Cosby testified and the civil case was then settled.
The current DA, looking to have higher office, used Cosby’s testimony and leveled criminal charges against him.
The judge (also seeking higher office) did not throw the case out and did not block Cosby’s voluntary testimony from being used to convict him on the same criminal charges that were dropped in return for that testimony.
Total over-reach by the government and rightly shot down.
I'm not sure that's exactly what happened, based on this report. There was apparently no immunity deal and no plea agreement, just a public statement by the DA.
If I were in Cosby's position back then I would have invoked the 5th Amendment and refused to testify in the civil case.
Look for other high profile criminals to get the same treatment.
No doubt with an apology, financial settlement and spitting in the victim’s faces.
Corrupt political DA’s use the law like a weapon for political purposes. It starts at the DOJ, which is the worst for this.
I think he is guilty BUT the government poisoned the well.
The trial court, intermediate appellate court, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court all rejected Cosby's efforts to stop the criminal case.
Heh. When offered a chance to review the rationale it now uses to dismiss the conviction, the PA supreme Court said there was no issue with bringing crimnal charges.
Now there is?
Nothing changed.
Law is whimsy. Depends who you draw for a prosecutor, judge.
Bill Cosby needs to sue the government for imprisoning him for 2 years of life.
The big question is will Cosby get his own statues like George Floyd?
If you indict somebody long and often enough, you will achieve the desired result.
Either we believe in the rule of law or we don’t.
Right and he still admitted under oath that he gave quaaludes to women and then raped them.
Joe DeGenova gave a good explanation of the Bill Crosby decision on Larry O’Connor’s WMAL.com morning show. He also talks about New York State dis-barring Rudy Gullianai.
Go here to find Monday morning’s interview podcast:
https://www.wmal.com/oconnor-company/
It was not an immunity deal, it was a plea deal. The original DA did not have enough evidence to charge Cosby criminally.
So, the DA said: tell us what happened and we will not charge you criminally, but we will allow the civil case to proceed.
So Cosby testified and the civil case proceeded.
A new DA used Cosby’s testimony to charge him criminally.
That is violating the original agreement.
I think he is guilty, and no court technicality is going to change that. Too bad the prosecutors are too incompetent to run a legit trial.
Guilty, but he has repented of his actions, albeit rather belatedly.
The sentence was not at all commensurate with the offense committed. That was not justice, that was the street mob demanding vengeance.
“America’s Dad” had to be scorned, dissed and thrown down into ignominy. He portrayed a TV character who was far too “colorblind”, and that is not permitted in the new “woke” consciousness.
Doesn’t make him innocent though; just not guilty.
all this metoo stuff was just a net to catch Trump and Repubs.
they caught Dems 9 times out of ten.
Now they are gonna release the big fish with D’s after their name back out to the water.
Weinstein is next, Epstein would have been after that.
and prison was good to Cos, he’s no longer blind or needs help walking.
He’s still a creep to drug women.
Bill Cosby is guilty as hell, but the court made the right call.
Prosecutors can’t say.... Oh, never mind about that prior agreement. You said something we can get you on.
The alternative is, the riots start again.
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