Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction overturned by court

By AP 30 June 2021, 7:51 pm

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Pennsylvania’s highest court overturns Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction after finding that an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case.

Cosby has served more than two years of a three- to 10-year sentence at a state prison near Philadelphia. The 83-year-old Cosby, who was once beloved as “America’s Dad,” was convicted of drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban estate.

He was charged in late 2015, when a prosecutor armed with newly unsealed evidence arrested him days before the 12-year statute of limitations expired.

Prosecutors did not immediately say if they would appeal or seek to try Cosby for a third time. His first trial ended in a jury deadlock.