[jz638]

...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?

[mmichaels1970]

The process of navigating the justice system itself cannot be used as punishment

Agree. At least it should not. But it is.

[Verginius Rufus]

Exactly the point I was going to make. If they can do this to a rich and famous black man like Bill Cosby, what chance does someone who isn’t a rich, famous black man have in our system of justice?