Supreme Court Convicts Bill Cosby’s Debunked Sexual Assault Case – CBS Pittsburgh

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Correspondent

(CNN) – The Supreme Court upheld the view of Pennsylvania’s highest court on Monday that it overturned comedian Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction, rejecting prosecutors’ recommendation. Pennsylvania to review the decision.

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Cosby was found guilty of indecent assault in 2018 for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his Pennsylvania home in 2004. He was sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison. .

He was released from prison in June after the state Supreme Court overturned his sexual assault conviction on the grounds that his rights had been violated.

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Penn State Supreme Court justices in their view that a former Montgomery district attorney’s decision not to indict Cosby in 2005 in exchange for his removal in a late civil case The same was used against him at trial.

This is a breaking story and will be updated.

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