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Post by thebtskink on Jun 30, 2021 13:35:55 GMT -5
To say the prosecution bungled the most recent case is an understatement.
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Post by Dracula on Jun 30, 2021 13:45:27 GMT -5
The steps they were taking to get around the statute of limitations and get previous testimony into evidence did always seem like a bit of a stretch.
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Post by Wyldstaar on Jun 30, 2021 20:13:01 GMT -5
The steps they were taking to get around the statute of limitations and get previous testimony into evidence did always seem like a bit of a stretch. From what I've been told by a lawyer who read up on it after the announcement today, the primary problem is that Cosby was told by a prosecutor that he would get immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony on an earlier case, which Cosby's lawyer failed to get in writing. Cosby then implicated himself in that testimony, and the District Attorney's office realized they'd made a huge mistake in granting him immunity. The DA then decided to prosecute him using his own testimony against him, and deny any offer of immunity. The prosecutor who made the verbal deal with Cosby has at last admitted that he did in fact make this deal. Now the entire case has been thrown out, and it can't be retried. |
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Post by IanTheCool on Jun 30, 2021 20:18:38 GMT -5
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Post by Dracula on Jun 30, 2021 20:36:40 GMT -5
The steps they were taking to get around the statute of limitations and get previous testimony into evidence did always seem like a bit of a stretch. From what I've been told by a lawyer who read up on it after the announcement today, the primary problem is that Cosby was told by a prosecutor that he would get immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony on an earlier case, which Cosby's lawyer failed to get in writing. Cosby then implicated himself in that testimony, and the District Attorney's office realized they'd made a huge mistake in granting him immunity. The DA then decided to prosecute him using his own testimony against him, and deny any offer of immunity. The prosecutor who made the verbal deal with Cosby has at last admitted that he did in fact make this deal. Now the entire case has been thrown out, and it can't be retried. This is a pretty good article about it: slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/bill-cosby-bruce-castor-pennsylvania-supreme-court.htmlThey say this is all the prosecutors fault, and it sort of is, but if he hadn't tried to pull that trick odds are they never would have had the goods to prosecute in the first place. The idea was that they didn't think they had enough for a conviction so they pulled this stunt so that Cosby wouldn't plead the fifth during a civil trial, then (a successor DA) went back on the deal when the pressure of Cosby's eventual reckoning came into play. |
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Post by frankyt on Jul 1, 2021 7:29:35 GMT -5
Sounds like it's just lucky we even got him in jail for 3 years.
Money's a helluva drug.
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