Lawyers prepare for Bill Cosby’s appeal

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Legal advocates are lining up on both sides of actor Bill Cosby’s appeal as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court prepares to review his 2018 sex assault conviction&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Cosby was the first celebrity to go on trial in the &num;MeToo era&comma; and his appeal could resolve lingering questions about how the cases should be tried&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For starters&comma; the high court will try to clarify when other accusers can testify against a defendant — and when the additional testimony amounts to character assassination&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a brief filed in Cosby’s appeal&comma; public defenders in Philadelphia noted courts had given conflicting guidance on the issue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Courts repeatedly fail to analyse how uncharged misconduct is relevant to prove&comma; for example&comma; intent or identity&comma;” the Defender Association of Philadelphia wrote in the brief&comma; one of several filed in the case in the past month&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They say the testimony should only be allowed if it is linked to a single crime scheme&comma; to avoid &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the genuine risk that defendants will be convicted for who they are&comma; or for what they may or may not have done before”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Prosecutors&comma; in a brief filed on Monday&comma; offered several legal justifications for the accusers’ testimony&comma; hoping at least one of them would stick&period; They said it was needed to show Cosby’s pattern of behaviour&comma; to show the encounter was not a one-time mistake&comma; and to show the complaint was not filed on a whim&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is unusual&comma; to say the least&comma; that defendant has been repeatedly … accused of engaging in sexual conduct with unconscious or otherwise incapacitated young women … without any consequences&comma;” the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office wrote in their response to Cosby’s appeal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;162062" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-162062" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;09&sol;230F93FE-399B-4D7A-A1FF-E09AC8761034&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"847" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-162062" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-162062" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Actor Bill Cosby&comma; holding the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmy Awards of 2003&comma; has vowed to serve the full 10-year maximum rather than show remorse for what he calls a consensual 2004 encounter&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Cosby&comma; 83&comma; will mark two years in prison this month and has another year left before he can seek parole&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; he has vowed to serve the full 10-year maximum rather than show remorse for what he calls a consensual 2004 encounter with Andrea Constand&comma; a former professional basketball player who worked for the college he attended&comma; Temple University&comma; in Philadelphia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cosby won a chance to reverse his conviction earlier this year&comma; when the state Supreme Court agreed to review two central trial issues&colon; the other accuser testimony and Cosby’s claim that a former prosecutor had promised he could never be charged in the case&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cosby’s lawyers said they relied on that promise when they let him testify in a civil suit that Ms Constand filed in 2005&comma; soon after the suburban Philadelphia prosecutor declined to arrest the former TV star&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A successor&comma; Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele&comma; arrested Cosby a decade later after the comedian’s damaging deposition from the lawsuit was unsealed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Actor Bill Cosby&comma; holding the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmy Awards of 2003&comma; has vowed to serve the full 10-year maximum rather than show remorse for what he calls a consensual 2004 encounter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office&comma; in a brief in support of Mr Steele&comma; said the Cosby camp’s decision to rely on an unwritten promise before he testified in such &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a grave matter … was unreasonable”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Supreme Court has not yet set a date for oral arguments&period; Other groups filing legal briefs in the appeal include the Rape&comma; Abuse &amp&semi; Incest National Network&comma; known as RAINN&semi; the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers&semi; and the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads3--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cosby was convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault based on charges he drugged and molested Ms Constand after she went to his house for career advice&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The five other accusers who testified for the prosecution said they believed he also drugged and sexually assaulted them in the 1980s&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e799e962">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; 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