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		</div><p>US entertainer Bill Cosby&#8217;s lawyers are set to argue that prosecutors are reaching back to the &#8220;casting couch&#8221; era to round up female accusers and build a &#8220;stale&#8221; sexual assault case against him.</p>
<p>Before a Pennsylvania judge, they will challenge sexual misconduct claims over Cosby stretching from the 1960s through to the 21st century.</p>
<p>Cosby will be present for the hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse.</p>
<p>Prosecutors will ask the judge to let 13 other women testify at the scheduled June trial that they were drugged and molested by Cosby in what they claim is his &#8220;signature&#8221; fashion.</p>
<p>Defence lawyers said the women&#8217;s memories have been compromised by time and widespread media coverage of the case.</p>
<p>&#8220;The fact that even the most fervently held memories can actually be tainted &#8211; or altogether false &#8211; is supported by a vast existing and growing body of science,&#8221; lawyers Brian McMonagle and Angela Agrusa wrote.</p>
<p>The pretrial hearing is expected to last two days, with another hearing on the evidence set for December.</p>
<p>Cosby, who is now 79 and legally blind, remains free on bail. It has been a half a century since the comedian became the first black actor to star in a primetime TV show, I Spy, and more than 20 years since his top-ranked sitcom The Cosby Show stopped filming.</p>
<p>After a Temple University employee made a sexual assault complaint against Cosby in 2005, prosecutors said there was not enough evidence to charge him.</p>
<p>But a new prosecutor, district attorney Kevin Steele, reopened the Montgomery County case last year amid new evidence: the scores of public accusers and a newly unsealed deposition which showed Cosby acknowledging he gave Andrea Constand three unlabelled pills and some wine before putting his hand down her pants.</p>
<p>Ms Constand, then 30, said she was only semi-conscious after taking what she thought were herbal pills. She had met Cosby through her job and said she went to his house that night for career advice.</p>
<p>Ms Constand settled a lawsuit against Cosby in 2006. The star&#8217;s defence said her accounts of her relationship with Cosby changed in her initial police statements, and added that the two had been intimate before.</p>
<p>They also took aim at prosecution claims that Cosby attacked vulnerable young women in &#8220;signature&#8221; fashion after offering to mentor them.</p>
<p>Defence lawyers challenge the point, saying the women had different types of friendships with Cosby, met him in different cities and were various ages. The defence will ask Judge Steven O&#8217;Neill to bar their &#8220;prior bad act&#8221; testimony.</p>
<p>&#8220;Even if proven (and it could not be), the age-old &#8216;casting couch&#8217; is not unique to Mr Cosby, and thus not a &#8216;signature&#8217; nor a basis for the admissibility of these witnesses&#8217; stories, let alone a conviction,&#8221; Cosby&#8217;s team wrote.</p>
<p>The judge has so far sided with prosecutors in refusing to dismiss the case.</p>
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