Supreme Court declines to take up Bill Cosby sexual assault case; decision allows him to be free from prison
This leaves in place a decision by Pennsylvania’s highest court to throw out his conviction and set him free from prison.
Cosby was convicted in 2018 for drugging and sexually assaulting Canadian basketball coach Andrea Constand.He was sentenced to three to ten years in state prison, but then released in 2021, after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his convictions on the ground that his due process rights had been violated.
According to CNN, Cosby’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean urged the court to not step in, saying that the Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court’s “promise should be enforced.”
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