Cosby's Attorneys Give Reasoning For Moving Trial
Bill Cosby wants to move his sex assault trial out of Montgomery County, pointing to what his attorneys label "inflammatory" media coverage.
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Bill Cosby wants to move his sex assault trial out of Montgomery County, pointing to what his attorneys label "inflammatory" media coverage.
Cosby's trial is set to begin in June in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Bill Cosby is starting 2017 in a legal dragnet that has only tightened around him since his stunning arrest a year ago.
Prosecutors are asking to put 13 women with similar allegations on the stand at Cosby's trial.
Prosecutor Kevin Steele says "this is a lifetime of sexual assaults on young women."
Threatening to call in sheriff's deputies, a judge repeatedly admonished lawyers on both sides of Bill Cosby's sexual assault case Tuesday during a high-stakes hearing in a Montgomery County courtroom that will determine whether prosecutors can call as many as 13 accusers as trial witnesses.
Bill Cosby joked, 'Don't tase me, bro,'" as he was being wanded by security officers on his way into a suburban Philadelphia courtroom.
Prosecutors will argue why they should be allowed to present more than a dozen women at trial, who allege Cosby also drugged and assaulted them.
The defense team for Bill Cosby's was dealt a blow Monday as the comedian battles charges he drugged and molested a woman at his Cheltenham mansion back in 2004.
Judge Steven O'Neill denied two motions from Bill Cosby's defense team.
Reruns of "The Cosby Show" are returning to television, even as the comedian's sexual assault trial looms next year.
Chris reviewed yesterday's Eagles win, Saturday Night Live's handling of the election results and Donald Trump's interview with 60 Minutes. He talked with Michael Bronstein and Colin Hanna on the Monday Morning Matchup at 7:00 about Trump's victory and Ike Reese from WIP at 8:00 about the Eagles win.
Cosby is asking charges be thrown out because of the decade-plus delay between allegations and charges. His attorneys are also asking a 2005 civil deposition be suppressed.
Today's focus will be on whether or not a ten year delay between the allegations and the charges violated Bill Cosby's due process.
Cosby and his attorneys spent the day arguing for pretrial motions related to charges he drugged and fondled a woman at his Cheltenham mansion back in 2004.
Both sides are arguing over evidence in 78-year-old entertainer's sex assault case.
Today's hearing is the first of four days set aside by the judge hearing Bill Cosby's case.
Bill Cosby's lawyers accused prosecutors Monday of trying to use the "tainted, unreliable memories of women, now in their senior years."
Did Bill Cosby drug and molest young women as part of a "signature" crime spree spanning five decades?
Bill Cosby's defense attorneys declare he is legally blind in a new motion filed in a Pennsylvania court.
A lower court judge ruled that is acceptable for purposes of a preliminary hearing under Pennsylvania law.
Bill Cosby's lawyers blame his arrest on sexual assault charges on "a perfect storm" of mistakes.
A federal judge in Philadelphia has barred Bill Cosby from attending the deposition his accuser gives in her defamation suit against a former district attorney.
The statement says Cosby has been "no stranger to racial discrimination and hatred" throughout his career.
A Pennsylvania judge says he wants Bill Cosby's felony sexual assault case to go to trial no later than June 5.
