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In a motion filed Dec. 18 to quash the subpoena, Bill Cosby's lawyers said his wife does not have any information about the accuracy of the women's allegations, and argued that subjecting his wife to a deposition was "nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to pressure defendant in the face of subjecting his wife to the shame and embarrassment of responding to questions about his alleged infidelities and sexual misconduct."


subjecting his wife to shame and embarrassment 50+ years.. I doubt it

while the Other Bill is strutting around,aiming to become First Husband,popular as ever,that Stinker!

Bristol Pilot > News

Montgomery County judge sets hearing on request to dismiss Bill Cosby charges

Published: Thursday, January 14, 2016

By Carl Hessler Jr.
chessler@21st-centurymedia.com

NORRISTOWN >> Entertainer Bill Cosby’s preliminary hearing on charges he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in his Cheltenham home has been postponed a second time so a judge can consider a defense request to dismiss the charges.

Montgomery County Administrative Judge Steven T. O’Neill issued an order on Wednesday setting Feb. 2 as the date a Common Pleas Court judge will hear arguments on requests made by Cosby’s defense team to dismiss the charges and to disqualify District Attorney Kevin R. Steele from handling the Cosby prosecution.

Cosby’s preliminary hearing had been set for Feb. 2, but now has been postponed and a new date will be set later.

It’s the second time that Cosby’s preliminary hearing has been rescheduled. The preliminary hearing originally had been scheduled for Jan. 14 before District Court Judge Elizabeth McHugh but was later rescheduled to Feb. 2 in order to give defense lawyers more time to prepare.

On Tuesday, Cosby’s lawyers filed court papers arguing the sexual assault charges should be dismissed against Cosby because current prosecutors intentionally breached a 2005 agreement that specified Cosby would never be charged.

Defense lawyers Brian J. McMonagle and Monique Pressley also want the newly-elected Steele disqualified from the case, accusing him of injecting the Cosby allegations into his recent political campaign. McMonagle and Pressley contend Steele repeatedly violated ethical rules by injecting the Cosby case into his fall election bid “that served no purpose other than to advance Mr. Steele’s political ambitions by inflaming the public against Mr. Cosby.”

Steele has said the defense requests have “no merit.”

Judge O’Neill, in his one-page order on Wednesday, gave prosecutors 14 days to file a written response to the defense requests in preparation for the Feb. 2 hearing.

William Henry Cosby Jr., as his name appears on charging documents, faces three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault in connection with the alleged sexual assault of former Temple University athletic department employee Andrea Constand at his home in the 8200 block of New Second Street in Cheltenham between mid-January and mid-February 2004. The charges were lodged against Cosby, 78, on Dec. 30, before the 12-year statute of limitations to file charges expired.

The newspaper does not normally identify victims of sex crimes without their consent but is using Constand’s name because she has identified herself publicly.

If convicted of the charges at trial, Cosby, an entertainment icon who remains free on 10 percent of $1 million bail, faces a possible maximum sentence of 15 to 30 years in prison.

The alleged assault took place in Cosby’s Cheltenham home. Constand, then 30, according to court documents, was invited by Cosby to his home to discuss her career. Over the course of the evening, Constand allegedly told Cosby she felt “drained” because she had been missing sleep. In response, Cosby allegedly gave the victim three blue pills, saying, “these will make you feel good,” and telling her they were herbal, according to the arrest affidavit.

Constand, who also allegedly was provided wine by Cosby, reported feeling odd after taking the pills, with blurred vision and unsteady legs. She told police that Cosby proceeded to sexually assault her on a couch in the home.

The victim did not report the incident to authorities until January 2005 after returning to her home in Canada.

The investigation initially was undertaken by former District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr., who in February 2005 determined there was insufficient evidence to prosecute Cosby, who claimed the alleged contact was consensual.

Current prosecutors reopened the investigation last July after Cosby’s deposition connected to a 2005 civil suit Constand filed against him was unsealed by a judge. In that deposition, Cosby gave damaging testimony, allegedly admitting he obtained quaaludes to give to women with whom he wanted to have sex.

The case represents the first time Cosby has been charged with a crime despite allegations from dozens of women who claimed they were assaulted by the entertainer.

http://buckslocalnews.com/articles/2016/01/14/bristol_pilot/news/doc5696c5ba5981a402129914.txt/

I don't think we will hear much from Pedophile Bill now. Trump shut him up quick.

Bad news for Bill Cosby. As if he needed more bad news.



A judge has shot down the scandal-plagued comedian’s attempt to appeal a ruling in his criminal case, according to court papers obtained by TheWrap.

Cosby was charged with aggravated indecent assault in December. The charges stem from accusations made by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand, who claims Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in his Pennsylvania home in 2004. After former Montgomery County (Pa.) district attorney Bruce Castor declined to pursue criminal charges, Constand filed suit against Cosby in 2005, later settling with him.
Earlier this month, Cosby’s legal team argued that either the case should be tossed, or that Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele — who made the Cosby case a prominent part of his campaign for office last year — should be removed from the case. Lawyers for Cosby contended that there was an agreement with Castor that the comedian wouldn’t be prosecuted.

Judge Steven T. O’Neill shot down that argument, and late last week Cosby filed notice that he was appealing the case.

O’Neill again put the brakes on Cosby in an order issued Tuesday, noting that his previous Feb. 4 orders “do not involve controlling questions of law as to which there is substantial ground for difference of opinion, and (2) an immediate appeal from these orders would not materially advance the ultimate termination of the matter, therefore, it is hereby ordered and decreed that the motion is denied.”

Cosby has been accused of rape or sexual assault by dozens of women, many of whom claim he drugged them beforehand. Numerous lawsuits have been filed against the comedian. Cosby has denied the allegations, and in some cases sued his accusers for defamation.

Geez..how could Cosby or his lawyer think for a minute that the charges would be dropped? Ego? Or because he has gotten away with it for so long?

This is not only a high profile case it is political in Montgomery county, Pa..

Cha! Ching!

MONDAY, FEB. 22, 2016, 10:15 A.M.

Camille Cosby is deposed in Massachusetts defamation case

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/feb/22/camille-cosby-is-deposed-in-massachusetts-defamati/

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Bill Cosby’s wife, an enigmatic figure who has publicly stood by her husband despite the dozens of sexual assault allegations against him, was deposed Monday in a defamation lawsuit filed against him by seven accusers.

The deposition, believed to be the first she has given since dozens of women came forward to accuse him of sex assault, was given under heavy security at the Springfield Marriott. Hotel staff cordoned off the area of the hotel near the conference room where Cosby gave her deposition and later pulled heavy draperies across the hallway so no one could see the door to the room.

Depositions in civil cases are typically given in private, with only the people being deposed, their lawyers and a stenographer in the room. Written transcripts of depositions are generally sealed from public view because they are considered discovery materials shared between lawyers on both sides. But depositions can sometimes become public when they are attached to support a motion in the case.

Camille, 71, has been married to Bill for 52 years. She has also been his business manager.

After numerous women went public with sexual assault allegations against her husband, Camille Cosby issued a supportive statement, calling him “a kind man, a generous man, a funny man, and a wonderful husband, father and friend.”

“He is the man you thought you knew,” she said in December 2014.

She also suggested that her husband, not the women, was the party being harmed.

“None of us will ever want to be in the position of attacking a victim,” she said. “But the question should be asked –– who is the victim?”

Lawyers for the Cosbys have argued that she does not have any information on the accuracy of the women’s claims and that her conversations with her husband are confidential under the Massachusetts marital disqualification rule. They attempted to quash the deposition.

A judge had ruled Friday that Camille Cosby’s deposition must proceed. However, defense lawyers filed an emergency motion late Saturday requesting it be delayed, saying she “has had no involvement with the facts or allegations underlying this case.” They argued her public testimony would create “an unnecessary media circus and personal security threat that serves no purpose other than to harass and embarrass her.”

In a ruling late Sunday, a judge said Monday’s deposition can take place.

The Cosbys have a home in Shelburne Falls, about an hour’s drive from Springfield, where the lawsuit was filed. They have five children, one of them deceased.

A lawyer for the women argued that because Camille Cosby has been the TV star’s wife and business manager, she could have useful information.

The plaintiffs in the Massachusetts defamation case are among about 50 who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual misconduct.

In December, Cosby, 78, was charged in Pennsylvania with drugging and sexually assaulting a former Temple University employee at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. Cosby has pleaded not guilty. This month, a judge denied a motion by Cosby’s lawyers to dismiss the charges. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 8.

Cosby’s lawyers have said in court papers that the deposition is “nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to pressure (the) defendant in the face of subjecting his wife to the shame and embarrassment of responding to questions about his alleged infidelities and sexual misconduct.”
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I saw this on the news. Can they force her to do it?

I saw this on the news. Can they force her to do it?


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/01/08/bill-and-camille-cosby-and-the-argument-over-their-spousal-disqualification-defense/

In this state they are protected by spousal laws. But only for 'criminal'.

So yes, she must testify, by court order for 'disclosure'.
She is there because of her husband being charged with defamation.
( calling lots of women liers, etc)

But..she does NOT have to reveal or repeat ANY conversations she had with her husband.

But she is ordered say what she knows.

Examples:
had lots of affairs, gave lots of women money etc.

Problem is.. Once information is out, it is out & it WILL be used against him.

I don't think Camille Cosby will be of any help in this case. This classy intelligent woman is reduced to a vacuous entity anytime she sits next to her husband for an interview. She is a textbook study in cognitive dissonance. I feel almost as sorry for her as I feel for the rape victims.The whole thing is depressing on so many levels :(

Get all of them, the scammers and politicians, and corrupt lawyers, cops, and everyone that's defrauding humanity, and send them to a Mexican Prison.

Y_Y

Get all of them, the scammers and politicians, and corrupt lawyers, cops, and everyone that's defrauding humanity, and send them to a Mexican Prison


Nah. Mexican prisoners are under investigation for reform. How about a stone cold Chech one ?

Hi Peggy


It'easy to feel sorry for her but consider that she was his manager and most likely was making all the accommodation arrangements while on the road back then. There's no way she didn't notice something over the years. Then consider that Bill was prescribed these drugs by a gynecologist, I bet they shared the same gynecologist?

No, I think this lady knew about her husbands penchant for unconscious victims, for her sake, I hope none of those scripts were to her name for example. See Bill didn't take drugs or hardly drank for that matter.

I hold very little hope for any convictions in this case except for defamation maybe but they're both guilty... her being an accessory to the fact IMO.

You might be right John. Sigh..Maybe the cognitive dissonance is my own ... :(

Rapists should be hanged.
Tall piece of tree + short piece of rope = justice.

Thanks for explaining that to me Sassy

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I don't think Camille Cosby will be of any help in this case. This classy intelligent woman is reduced to a vacuous entity anytime she sits next to her husband for an interview. She is a textbook study in cognitive dissonance. I feel almost as sorry for her as I feel for the rape victims.The whole thing is depressing on so many levels :(


She is also known as his " tough as nails" business manager for his entire career. She knew what he was doing. She knew of the pay-offs as well. She turned the other cheek.

45+ years. That is a lot of cheeks & a lot of cash.

Turned the other cheek so Bill would leave her alone in the bedroom?