white establishment in America moves forward to crucify Bill Cosby
See for yourselves how evil operates as the white establishment breaking the law to crucify African American legend Bill Cosby. Keshia Knight Pulliam, your a true sistah and a credit to our race, unlike (Sorry Malcolm) joseph c (for cissy) phillips you uncle tom bitch. Trying to protect your career boy you've just destroyed it! The king will make sure you never work in this country again you worthless ungrateful niggah! God bless you Dr. Cosby and let this be an example to the world of just how evil the white establishment is and let us all pray and work together for their absolute destruction!
NORRISTOWN,
Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Bill Cosby arrived Monday at the Montgomery
County Courthouse to face charges that he drugged and assaulted former
Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his Cheltenham home in
2004.
With the streets outside the courthouse lined with
television trucks, Cosby arrived arm-in-arm with Keshia Knight Pulliam,
who played his television daughter, Rudy Huxtable, on "The Cosby Show."
The courtroom was packed with members of the public and media.
District
Judge Steven O'Neill instructed jurors that Cosby is innocent until
proved guilty, opening statements are not evidence and Cosby has a right
to remain silent.
"This is an important case, a weighty case, and there's a lot of evidence," he said.
The 79-year-old actor faces three counts of
aggravated indecent assault. He has denied the accusations since 2005,
when Constand first went to the police. Opening statements are expected
to being Monday morning.
The district attorney at the time of the
alleged assault declined to press charges, and in 2006 Cosby settled a
civil suit with Constand that remained sealed for almost a decade.
Though
more than 50 women have leveled allegations against the former "I Spy"
star, the trial will focus on the testimony of Constand and only one
other accuser, who has been identified as Jane Doe.
Ex-Playboy
model Victoria Valentino, Florida nurse Therese Serignese and former
actor Lili Bernard, all among Cosby's accusers, were spotted in the
courtroom's overflow room. They are not expected to testify.
Those
close to Andrea Constand say she is feeling strong and is ready to tell
her side of the story. She has already traveled from Toronto to
Pennsylvania, but it's not yet clear when prosecutors will call her to
the stand.
"She knows she has the truth on her side," one source told CNN. A he said, she said case?
Cosby's
attorney, Martin Singer, has repeatedly denied the accusations against
his client, at one point in 2014 decrying what he called
"unsubstantiated, fantastical stories," which were becoming
"increasingly ridiculous."
Prosecutors had sought to include testimony from 13 other accusers, but O'Neill ruled that would be too prejudicial.
Cosby
has said he does not plan to testify. His deposition from the civil
suit will stand as his explanation of what happened -- which means the
trial likely will hinge on a classic case of "he said, she said."
In
the deposition, Cosby said he had engaged in consensual sexual activity
with Constand -- and that he had obtained Quaaludes in order to give
them to women with whom he wanted to have sex. The unsealed deposition
was central to Cosby's arrest in December 2015.
Cosby will face a
jury of seven men and five women. Two jurors are black. The jurors will
be sequestered in the criminal trial for about two weeks, the lawyers in
the case have predicted. The criminal complaint
In
2005, Constand, the director of operations for the women's basketball
team at Temple at the time, told police she was drugged and assaulted by
Cosby, a Temple alumnus who was 37 years her senior.
Sometime
between mid-January and mid-February in 2004, Cosby invited Constand to
his home in the Philadelphia suburbs to discuss her career plans. She
told him she was "drained" and had been missing sleep, according to a
criminal complaint.
Cosby told her to relax and gave her three
blue pills, saying "these will make you feel good. The blue things will
take the edge off," according to the complaint. She asked if the pills
were herbal and he said they were. Cosby then offered her wine, and
after some cajoling, she took a couple of sips, the complaint says.
She
began experiencing blurred vision and difficulty speaking, lost all
strength in her legs, and was "in and out," she told police. According
to the complaint, Cosby positioned himself behind her on the sofa,
penetrated her vagina with his fingers and put her hand on his penis.
She told police she did not consent to the touching.
Constand woke up in the morning and discovered that her bra was undone, according to the complaint. Mom confronts Cosby, complaint says
About
a year later, Constand told her mother about the assault, and her
mother spoke with Cosby, who acknowledged fondling Constand's breasts,
penetrating her vagina and putting her hand on his penis, the complaint
says.
In an interview with police, Cosby said that the pills he
gave Constand were over-the-counter Benadryl. He described their sexual
encounter as consensual, and he said she never told him to stop or
mentioned that her senses were affected by the Benadryl.
Cosby also gave an unusual answer when asked if he ever had sexual intercourse with Constand: "Never asleep or awake," he said.
District
Attorney Bruce Castor declined to press charges in 2005, citing
insufficient evidence. Constand filed a civil suit against Cosby shortly
after, and Cosby gave a deposition in that case. He and Constand
settled the civil suit in 2006.
Cosby starred in "Fat Albert and
the Cosby Kids" and "The Cosby Show." Through the latter he turned
middle-class African-American family life into a groundbreaking TV
sitcom.
His sweater-wearing portrayal of Dr. Cliff Huxtable made
him a household name and one of the most beloved comedians in the world.
In later years, Cosby became a public moralizer, speaking out against
what he saw as the failings of African-American community in raising
children.
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