Bill Cosby’s lawyer has asked the United States Supreme Court to dismiss prosecutors’ attempt to reopen his criminal sex assault case.
The 84-year-old American actor and comedian has been out of prison since June, when a Pennsylvania appeals court reversed his conviction and freed him after nearly three years behind bars.
When he gave damaging testimony in the accuser’s 2005 case, Cosby believed he had a nonprosecution agreement with a former district attorney, according to the state’s highest court.
That testimony later led to his arrest in 2015.
Cosby lawyer Jennifer Bonjean says the case rests on a narrow set of facts that should not interest the Supreme Court.
“Notwithstanding the commonwealth’s warning of imminent catastrophic consequences, the Cosby holding will likely be confined to its own ‘rare, if not entirely unique’ set of circumstances, making review by this court particularly unjustified,” she wrote in the 15-page response filed Monday.
Cosby became the first celebrity convicted of sexual assault in the #MeToo era when the jury at his 2018 retrial found him guilty of drugging and molesting college sports administrator Andrea Constand in 2004.
Cosby, a groundbreaking Black actor and comedian, created the top-ranked “Cosby Show” in the 1980s. A barrage of sexual assault allegations later destroyed his image as “America’s Dad” and led to multimillion-dollar court settlements with at least eight women.
But Constand’s case was the only one to lead to criminal charges
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