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Bill Cosby Case: mistrial
June 17, 2017 at 11:20 am
Quote:The prosecution presented its case in four-and-a-half days. The defense took all of six minutes. The criminal trial of Bill Cosby, a once universally-beloved pop cultural icon now accused by nearly 60 women of sexual misconduct, came to a close on Monday afternoon. Then the jury began to deliberate.
Fifty-two hours later, the jury could not reach a verdict. Judge Steven O’Neill declared a mistrial.
https://thinkprogress.org/judge-cosby-mi...3f0bb7bcd8
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RE: Bill Cosby Case: mistrial
June 17, 2017 at 12:20 pm
What a load of shit! Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you a mistrial after raping girls for 4 decades.
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RE: Bill Cosby Case: mistrial
June 17, 2017 at 12:23 pm
damn statute of limitations strikes again
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RE: Bill Cosby Case: mistrial
June 17, 2017 at 12:26 pm
There's poor people's justice and rich people's justice in the US. Cosby got rich people's justice.
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RE: Bill Cosby Case: mistrial
June 17, 2017 at 12:30 pm
Prosecutor vows to try again, apparently.
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RE: Bill Cosby Case: mistrial
June 17, 2017 at 12:46 pm
Color me shocked. Rapists almost never go to jail. Too much doubt surrounding the women taking so much time to come forward, and the credibility (and morality) of the plaintiff called into question.
He will get away with it. Most of them do.
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RE: Bill Cosby Case: mistrial
June 17, 2017 at 12:46 pm
Statute of limitations prevented, IIRC, an additional 59 prosecutions.
There are enough of them, however, to go for a class action lawsuit . . . .
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