He had a promise
Bill Cosby’s criminal sexual-assault case appears to be headed toward an evidence hearing after a judge denied his latest effort to throw the charges out.
In a ruling Tuesday, the judge who refused to dismiss the case earlier this month denied Cosby’s appeal of that decision.
The 78-year-old TV star is accused of drugging and violating an ex-Temple University employee at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004 and could get 10 years in prison if convicted. The defense insists Cosby had a promise from a previous district attorney that he would never be charged over the 2004 encounter.
Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill, though, found the evidence of such an agreement lacking after hearing from the ex-prosecutor and others at a two-day hearing.
But hey – he got away with it until he was 78. That’s quite a long run.
A ” promise” from the DA? That takes the cake. What a huge bilious sense of entitlement.
Yes. I know of no legal reason that the promise of one DA would be binding to courts or other prosecutors.
It strikes me as a teacher assigning homework only to have the kids whine that Mrs. Smith promised she’d never give them homework. This sin’t Mrs. Smith’s class. Suck it up, your work is due on Monday, I have tutoring hours on Saturday.
What if the DA had drugged him into believing there was such a promise?
What is the legal statutory life time of DA promises?
Mr Cosby, you may have 10 years to ponder the answer. Take your time.