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		</div><p>Bill Cosby has lost an attempt to have sexual assault charges against him thrown out and the criminal case appears to be heading towards an evidence hearing.</p>
<p>In a ruling on Tuesday, the judge who refused to dismiss the case earlier this month denied Cosby&#8217;s appeal against that decision.</p>
<p>The 78-year-old TV star is accused of drugging and violating an ex-Temple University employee at his Philadelphia home in 2004 and could get 10 years in prison if convicted.</p>
<p>The defence insists Cosby had a promise from a previous district attorney that he would never be charged over the 2004 encounter.</p>
<p>Montgomery County Judge Steven O&#8217;Neill, though, found the evidence of such an agreement lacking after hearing from the ex-prosecutor and others at a two-day hearing.</p>
<p>He said the issue does not warrant an immediate appeal that would delay the scheduled March 8 preliminary hearing.</p>
<p>&#8220;An immediate appeal from these orders would not materially advance the ultimate termination of the matter,&#8221; the judge wrote in a brief order.</p>
<p>A spokesman for Cosby&#8217;s lawyers said it was unclear whether they would appeal to the state Superior Court.</p>
<p>Cosby&#8217;s lawyers have argued the charges stem from a political feud between former district attorney Bruce Castor, who had declined to arrest Cosby a decade ago, and Kevin Steele, who invoked the case as he campaigned against Castor last autumn.</p>
<p>Mr Steele won the race for district attorney and filed charges against Cosby in December, days before the deadline expired.<br />
Dozens of women in recent years have come forward and accused Cosby of sexual impropriety spanning decades.</p>
<p>Cosby, who played Dr Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show from 1984 to 1992 and has been married for decades, has denied the women&#8217;s accusations. The statute of limitations has expired in most of the cases against him.</p>
<p>Cosby, whose legal residence is in western Massachusetts, remains free on $1m bail.</p>
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