Bill Cosby

New sexual assault trial of actor Bill Cosby to open in April

New York - AFP

The second sexual assault trial of American television legend Bill Cosby will open on April 2, 2018, the presiding judge ruled Friday. The trial was originally to have started on November 6, but Judge Steven O'Neill of the Court of Common Pleas in Norristown, Pennsylvania agreed to postpone it until the spring to give the actor's new lawyers time toRead more

Bill Cosby hires Michael Jackson’s lawyer for sex trial

Los Angeles - Muslimchronicle

Bill Cosby has hired Michael Jackson’s former lawyer to represent him at his November retrial on sexual-assault charges in Pennsylvania. Cosby’s spokesman announced on Monday the 80-year-old comedian is bringing in Tom Mesereau to lead a retooled defence team. Lawyers from the first trial in June had said they wanted off the case. Mesereau won an acquittal in Jackson’s 2005Read more

Bill Cosby sex case: Second lawyer quits

Los Angeles - Muslimchronicle

A second lawyer who defended Bill Cosby in his sex assault trial that ended with a deadlocked jury wants off the case before the start of his retrial that’s set for November. Los Angeles-based lawyer Angela Agrusa filed documents Tuesday seeking to withdraw as Cosby’s counsel. Lead defence lawyer Brian McMonagle, of Philadelphia, asked to be taken off the caseRead more

Tearful testimony as Cosby sexual assault trial opens

Norristown - AFP

Bill Cosby's trial for sexual assault opened Monday in Pennsylvania with tearful testimony from one of his alleged accusers as prosecutors painted the megastar turned pariah as a sexual predator who established trust with younger women before incapacitating them with drugs and wine. In one of America's biggest celebrity trials in years, the pioneering black comedian faces three counts ofRead more

Bill Cosby books top ‘remove’ list on a list of books parents

Los Angeles - Arab Today

A celebrity once beloved among young people now finds himself on a list of books parents and other community members most wish to see removed from libraries: Bill Cosby. Cosby’s Little Bill Books series is among those making the American Library Association’s annual top 10 “challenged books.” The reason is unique for the list, which the ALA announced Monday: not the booksRead more

Bill Cosby to discuss disco biscuits in ongoing trial

Los Angeles - Arab Today

Disco biscuits, Spanish fly and quaaludes could be on the agenda when Bill Cosby returns to a Pennsylvania court for the latest showdown over evidence in his sexual-assault case. Cosby’s lawyers want to bar from the June trial any mention of quaaludes, also called disco biscuits. Cosby has acknowledged getting the disco biscuits in the 1970s to give women beforeRead more

Cosby, a year later: Will he seek deal or prepare for trial?

Philadelphia - ArabToday

Bill Cosby is starting 2017 in a legal dragnet that has only tightened around him since his stunning arrest a year ago. Cosby was charged with aggravated sexual assault on December 30, 2015, just days before the 12-year statute of limitations would have run out over a 2004 encounter at his estate near Philadelphia. A year later, it’s increasingly unlikelyRead more

Cosby might face multiple accusers at assault trial

Norristown , Pennsylvania - Arab Today

Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial in Pennsylvania has been scheduled for June next year, and if prosecutors have their way, more than a dozen accusers will take the stand to detail what they claim is a decades-long pattern of attacks. During a recent hearing, Court of Common Pleas Judge Steven O’Neill in Norristown, Pennsylvania, set Cosby’s trial for June 5,Read more

Sex assault trial: Cosby faces 10 years if convicted

Norristown - Arab Today

Pasadena: A US judge has determined there is enough evidence to send actor and comedian Bill Cosby to trial on a sexual assault charge. Cosby is accused of drugging and molesting a former Temple University employee in his home outside of Philadelphia in 2004. The case was opened last year after dozens of women came forward with similar accusations. CosbyRead more

Playboy boss Hefner targeted in new suit against Cosby

Los Angeles - AFP

A model has named Playboy founder Hugh Hefner in a new lawsuit against Bill Cosby in which she alleges the disgraced comedian drugged and sexually abused her at the Playboy mansion. Chloe Goins claims in her civil suit -- the details of which were contained in another criminal complaint that was dropped -- that she had tagged along with aRead more