A lawyer handling Bill Cosby’s appeal says that racial bias was a factor in his 2018 sex assault conviction. Cosby prosecutor Kristen Gibbons Feden, who is Black, agrees racial bias is a systemic issue. But she says that doesn’t make Cosby innocent.
PHILADELPHIA — In a nearly empty Philadelphia courtroom in July 2015, a lawyer for Bill Cosby implored a federal judge to keep the comedian’s testimony in an old sexual battery lawsuit under wraps. It was sensitive. Embarrassing. Private.The conduct Cosby detailed in his deposition was “perhaps criminal,” Robreno wrote five years ago Monday, in a momentous decisionconvicted
in The Atlantic, ”‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’: The audacity of Bill Cosby’s Black conservatism.”The appeal issues the court accepted don’t directly include racial bias, which Cosby’s legal team raised more often on the courthouse steps in Montgomery County than inside the courtroom. His defenders, however, say race permeates the case.
— And, how many other accusers should be allowed to testify before the scales of justice tip against the accused? Constand knew Cosby from her job at Temple University, where Cosby was a booster, alumnus and longtime trustee twice her age.
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