30 Jun 21
https://apnews.com/article/bill-cosby-conviction-overturned-5c073fb64bc5df4d7b99ee7fadddbe5a
[/b]Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction overturned by court[/b]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and opened the way for his immediate release from prison Wednesday in a stunning reversal of fortune for the comedian once known as “America’s Dad,” ruling that the prosecutor who brought the case was bound by his predecessor’s agreement not to charge Cosby.
Cosby was arrested in 2015, when a district attorney armed with newly unsealed evidence — the comic’s damaging deposition testimony in a lawsuit brought by Constand — brought charges against him days before the 12-year statute of limitations ran out.
But the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said that District Attorney Kevin Steele, who made the decision to arrest Cosby, was obligated to stand by his predecessor’s promise not to charge Cosby. There was no evidence that promise was ever put in writing.
Justice David Wecht, writing for a split court, said Cosby had relied on the former prosecutor’s decision not to charge him when the comedian later gave his potentially incriminating testimony in the Constand’s civil case.
The court said that overturning the conviction, and barring any further prosecution, “is the only remedy that comports with society’s reasonable expectations of its elected prosecutors and our criminal justice system.”
@eladar saidRich priviilege, just like OJ Simpson.
Must be due to White Privilege.
Anyway he's 83 and in poor health, 3 years in prison has destroyed his career and legacy, he is a ruined man. May as well let him out, he's a pariah that will be lonely and miserable for his remaining days. He'll probably just stay at home in bed and wait to die.
30 Jun 21
@dood111 saidI'll drink to that
Rich priviilege, just like OJ Simpson.
Anyway he's 83 and in poor health, 3 years in prison has destroyed his career and legacy, he is a ruined man. May as well let him out, he's a pariah that will be lonely and miserable for his remaining days. He'll probably just stay at home in bed and wait to die.
30 Jun 21
@vivify saidYou mean like Zachary Hammond, a white guy killed by cops?
You've been told this before: people with money always get better treatment, regardless of race.
The but the way non-rich whites are treated compared to blacks who aren't rich? The unfair treatment is clear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Zachary_Hammond
30 Jun 21
@vivify saidDid you look at the numbers? You claimed just one white person. Obviously the truth is against your claim.
From your link:
"the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher"
Out of every 100 citizens in the US 13 are black and 61 are white.
Poverty rates for whites is 10 percent, so about 6 percent of the US population is a white person living in poverty.
Poverty rate for blacks is 20 percent, so about 3 percent of the US population is a black person living in poverty.
Given that it is poor people who are being shot by police, the ratio for comparison needs to be the poverty comparison which is closer to 2 to 1 than the general ratio more like 4 to 1.
You need to give up your racist point of view and view the true problem in the US, which this Bill Cosby case goes to demonstrate. It is rich vs poor not black vs white.
