Bill Cosby Released From Prison After Court Overturns His Conviction
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The disgraced comedian has been accused by more than 60 women of sexual misconduct.
Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby, who’s been accused by 60 women of sexual misconduct, was released from a state prison in Pennsylvania on Wednesday shortly after the state Supreme Court overturned his 2018 conviction for aggravated indecent assault. Cosby, 83, was freed after more than two years of a 10-year sentence for drugging and molesting a Temple University basketball coach named Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. In her victim impact statement, she said the trial left her “traumatized all over again.” But the Pennsylvania Supreme Court determined Wednesday that Cosby’s conviction in a second trial ― after the first ended in a hung jury ― was invalid. The court found that Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, who initiated Cosby’s arrest, was obligated to stand by a promise his predecessor had made not to charge Cosby, though there is no evidence that promise was ever put in writing, The Associated Press reported.More Related News