Bill Cosby’s Motion To Dismiss Charges Against Him Is Denied

As Bill Cosby left the Montgomery County Courthouse on a drizzly Wednesday night, his wave and smile did not give away what had just happened inside.

Current Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele argued in court that the deal wasn’t legitimate.

Raven Symoné, co-host of The View, and a one-time actor on the Cosby Show, said that she would watch the Cosby trial if his sexual assault trial were televised.

He also “struggled to find similar cases where a suspect who was never charged received a promise that he would never be prosecuted”.

“The judge clearly made the right decision on both the facts and the law when he chose to allow the criminal case against Bill Cosby to move forward”, Allred expressed in her prepared statement.

If convicted, Cosby is facing five to 10 years in prison. He has not yet entered a plea.

On Wednesday, a judge shot down the comedian’s motion to dismiss the case. In that deposition, Cosby gave damaging testimony, allegedly admitting he obtained Quaaludes to give to women with whom he wanted to have sex.

In the deposition, Cosby admitted giving what he said was an anti-allergy drug to his alleged victim before a sexual encounter that he described as consensual.

In the hearing, Cosby’s attorneys argued that the comedian agreed to a deal in which he would not be prosecuted, in exchange for agreeing to a deposition in a civil case; prosecutors stated that the deal was not legally binding as it had not been approved by a judge.

Documents from Ms Constand’s civil lawsuit against the star were sealed until last summer. But this is the only case in which he has been charged. But he also maligned her credibility throughout the day and questioned whether she and her mother set out to extort Cosby.

Risa Ferman, now a county judge, worked on the Constand case before succeeding Castor as district attorney in 2008. “The decision reached by the court was wrong”, he said. Cosby’s lawyers accused Steele of treating Cosby as “political football” during that campaign. “Really what we’re talking about here is honouring a commitment”.

He told USA Today, “A secret agreement that permits a wealthy defendant to buy his way out of a criminal case isn’t right”.

They never produced a written agreement to that effect.

“If there was an agreement, why didn’t you make that agreement in writing?” the judge asked Castor.

Philadelphia Bar chancellor Gaetan Alfano, a onetime prosecutor with the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office now in private practice, said prosecutors regularly grant immunity to witnesses, but typically in exchange for testimony in an ongoing criminal matter. He testified that in deciding not to charge Cosby, he meant to forever close the door on prosecuting the comedian.

Castor and the sitting district attorney, Steele, ran against each other in an election last fall, and Steele’s criticism of how Castor’s handled the original Cosby investigation became an issue in the race.