Cosby’s lawyers push to get sexual assault case thrown out

Numerous cases date to the 1960s and 1970s, making them ineligible for criminal prosecution, although his alleged victims also have filed a series of civil lawsuits claiming Cosby defamed them by calling them liars. Bill Cosby’s lawyer died last February 2015 so he can’t verify that there was an agreement and Andrea Constand’s lawyer denies that there was ever an agreement.

“I made the decision as the sovereign that Mr. Cosby would not be prosecuted, no matter what….”

After the phone call, the Constands said that Cosby’s agents “made a flurry of calls” offering contributions to an educational fund or to “suggest they meet [Cosby] at his next gig in Miami”.

A former district attorney who decided not to charge Bill Cosby in a 2004 sexual assault case says he believes his decision is binding on his successors and closed the door on future prosecution.

Bill Cosby has arrived at court ahead of a hearing in which his lawyers will ask a judge to throw out the only criminal case against him from dozens of accusations that he molested women. A new prosecutor arrested Cosby on December 30, just before the statute of limitations expired. Cosby is accused of drugging and violating Constand at his Pennsylvania mansion in 2004.

Under that deal, Cosby’s lawyers say, Castor promised not to prosecute Cosby over Constand’s allegations if he agreed to testify under oath in a civil suit she filed against him.

In an unusual twist, Castor was called to the stand at Tuesday’s hearing. Two men held his arms for support as he walked up a ramp to the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, and one carried in Cosby’s cane.

Bill Cosby’s attraction to Andrea Constand began the moment he spied her across a Temple University gym in about 2002.

Constand’s civil suit, alleging battery, sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress, was settled in 2006 with a confidential agreement.

A judge a year ago unsealed that testimony, in which Cosby acknowledged giving Benadryl, an anti-allergy medication, to Constand but portrayed the encounter as consensual. Those parts prompted a new district attorney to reopen the criminal investigation against the 78-year-old actor.

“When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?” she asked him.

More details have emerged from Bill Cosby’s 2005 deposition in a lawsuit brought on by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand, and they may contain some of the creepiest details yet on how he seduced his accusers.

When the hearing resumed, current District Attorney Kevin Steele argued against Cosby’s motion to dismiss, saying that an immunity deal must be in writing – and since it wasn’t, it shouldn’t be considered in this case.

There will be testimony today to determine if the case against Cosby will move forward.