Bill Cosby is a free man now after Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court overturned his 2018 conviction today because he was screwed over by prosecutors:
NBC NEWS – Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court, citing prosecutorial mistakes, overturned the sexual assault conviction of Bill Cosby on Wednesday, paving the way for one of America’s best-known comedians to walk free from prison.
The court said that a prosecutor’s decision not to charge Cosby, 83, opened the door for him to speak freely in a lawsuit against him — and that testimony was key in his conviction years later by another prosecutor.
Cosby was convicted in 2018 of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004, and was serving a three- to 10-year sentence. The Supreme Court said Cosby cannot be retried on the same charges.
“When an unconditional charging decision is made publicly and with the intent to induce action and reliance by the defendant, and when the defendant does so to his detriment (and in some instances upon the advice of counsel), denying the defendant the benefit of that decision is an affront to fundamental fairness, particularly when it results in a criminal prosecution that was foregone for more than a decade,” the high court ruled.
“For these reasons, Cosby’s convictions and judgment of sentence are vacated, and he is discharged.”
So what will happen to this prosecutor who violated the law and Cosby’s rights? Cosby has been rotting in prison since 2018 and setting him free is a fantastic outcome for him, but it seems to me that justice demands something more from the prosecutor. Otherwise this crap will continue to happen.
The full opinion is below if you want to read it:
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