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BumRushDaShow

(129,165 posts)
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 01:55 PM Apr 2018

Bill Cosby guilty of sexual assault, jury rules as trial ends

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

A Montgomery County jury has found Bill Cosby guilty of the only criminal charges to emerge from a career-ending scandal fueled by dozens of women who accused the entertainer once known as “America’s Dad” of sexual assault.

After about 13 hours of deliberation, the panel of seven men and five women on Thursday convicted him of drugging and assaulting Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee who said she had seen Cosby as a father-figure and mentor until the early 2004 night that he accosted her at his Cheltenham Township home.

The 80-year-old entertainer could face up to 10 years in prison.

The verdict delivered the first celebrity conviction of the #MeToo era in a case that in many ways stood at its vanguard and shone a spotlight on the role sexual entitlement, a scandal-hungry media and Hollywood’s casting couch culture played in the ruin of a comedy icon.

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/cosby/bill-cosby-guilty-trial-verdict-sexual-assault-20180426.html

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Bill Cosby guilty of sexual assault, jury rules as trial ends (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 OP
I heard they found him guilty on all three counts. LiberalFighter Apr 2018 #1
"Bill Cosby was found guilty on Thursday on three felony counts..." Miles Archer Apr 2018 #4
So pathetic laserhaas Apr 2018 #43
Got him! Justice is served FakeNoose Apr 2018 #2
OMG that is hilarious. BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #3
/thread Initech Apr 2018 #5
Justice is served laserhaas Apr 2018 #44
I wish Larry Wilmore were still on the Comedy Channel. BigmanPigman Apr 2018 #6
I loved his show. mountain grammy Apr 2018 #7
Larry Wilmore sometimes shows up on The Rundown with Robin Thede. iscooterliberally Apr 2018 #10
Thanks...I didn't know that! BigmanPigman Apr 2018 #11
soon be a reality show pstokely Apr 2018 #8
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't sad Ukrainian Yankee Apr 2018 #9
It IS sad. Dave Starsky Apr 2018 #36
I loved Cosby...watched all his shows in reruns...loved his standup...so sad. Demsrule86 Apr 2018 #39
I liked him way back before many folk would remember. Matilda Apr 2018 #45
He even drugged & assaulted one young woman who was *willingly* having tblue37 Apr 2018 #49
Justice at last. lunatica Apr 2018 #12
The times they ARE a-changing! B Stieg Apr 2018 #13
Whatever the sentence ends up being RockRaven Apr 2018 #14
Unless the appeals overturn the conviction, this setence defines him. Stuart G Apr 2018 #18
MSNBC just showed him walking out briskly while holding his cane up in the air spooky3 Apr 2018 #15
Yes, lots of comments about him walking briskly not using his cane. SunSeeker Apr 2018 #20
He'll be forgotten in a generation. joshcryer Apr 2018 #26
You mean the cane that was as thin as a pencil? shanti Apr 2018 #37
A poster wrote that the cane was white. That's a mobility guide appalachiablue Apr 2018 #42
His attorney just said they would appeal. spooky3 Apr 2018 #16
I wonder if there will be a civil case filed for monetary damages? LiberalFighter Apr 2018 #17
Already happened. rmm311 Apr 2018 #38
Very glad that justice was served, still very sad it was needed. Amimnoch Apr 2018 #19
The judge should have sent Cosby straight to jail instead of letting him go home. SunSeeker Apr 2018 #21
When does he get sentenced! mainstreetonce Apr 2018 #22
Unless he pulls an Aaron Hernandez rocktivity Apr 2018 #24
Keith Hernandez .... LenaBaby61 Apr 2018 #27
. Guy Whitey Corngood Apr 2018 #29
As a veteran Mets fan, I should know better -- thanks! rocktivity Apr 2018 #47
They have an estimate in the OP article BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #28
MSNBC is OJing his SUV like they expect him to run. nolabear Apr 2018 #23
Finally convicted, good. The poor women assaulted by this 'entertainer' appalachiablue Apr 2018 #25
It is still shocking to me that anyone would consider doing what he did. Who thinks like that? stevenleser Apr 2018 #31
Who thinks like that? LenaBaby61 Apr 2018 #33
+1 appalachiablue Apr 2018 #41
Many entertainers in his generation did that BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #35
The clean, nice 'family man' act by a narcissist pscyhopath pervert appalachiablue Apr 2018 #40
To me, very telling his wife was not in court Runningdawg Apr 2018 #30
"To me, very telling his wife was not in court." LenaBaby61 Apr 2018 #34
Melania enid602 Apr 2018 #32
Just makes me sad Bayard Apr 2018 #46
Same here. nt tblue37 Apr 2018 #50
Justice is served Devil Child Apr 2018 #48

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
4. "Bill Cosby was found guilty on Thursday on three felony counts..."
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 02:03 PM
Apr 2018
Comedian Bill Cosby was found guilty on Thursday on three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault by a Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, jury.

Cosby, 80, was retried on three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. Constand, 44, was a former women’s basketball coach at Temple University where Cosby was a trustee and major donor during the time he assaulted her.

In June of last year, a jury failed to reach a unanimous decision on the charges and the judge declared a mistrial. Cosby reportedly paid Constand $3.4 million in a civil lawsuit settlement in 2006.

“[R]emember this case is about trust, betrayal and the inability to consent,” Assistant District Attorney Kristen Feden said in her closing arguments on Tuesday, according to Deadline.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-cosby-found-guilty-on-all-counts-in-sexual-assault-retrial_us_5adf7c79e4b061c0bfa274b3

iscooterliberally

(2,860 posts)
10. Larry Wilmore sometimes shows up on The Rundown with Robin Thede.
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 02:26 PM
Apr 2018

Robin Thede's show is on BET on Thursday nights. I think she did her first season finale last week though. She was a regular on The Nightly Show. I really liked her and when I found out she had her own show I put it on my DVR. I don't know when it will start again though.

https://www.bet.com/shows/the-rundown-with-robin-thede.html

 

Ukrainian Yankee

(89 posts)
9. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't sad
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 02:18 PM
Apr 2018

The jury made the right decision. Cosby was clearly guilty. But it's like...hell I can't even describe it.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
36. It IS sad.
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 04:46 PM
Apr 2018

We all thought he was a great guy. We all thought he was a role model. But we all were wrong, obviously. And it hurts, because we all feel like fools now.

We didn't know that he was doing all that horrible stuff behind the scenes.

It's just another lesson in the fact that "heroes" should remain fictional.

Demsrule86

(68,607 posts)
39. I loved Cosby...watched all his shows in reruns...loved his standup...so sad.
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 07:09 PM
Apr 2018

Justice is served...he wasn't the person he pretended to be.

Matilda

(6,384 posts)
45. I liked him way back before many folk would remember.
Fri Apr 27, 2018, 12:05 AM
Apr 2018

He appeared in a show called "I Spy" with Robert Culp - the first time a black actor had headlined a TV series with a white actor. it was very good; suspenseful, plenty of action, and it was very funny. Made in the late 60s.

And I don't understand why he did what he did - he was an attractive man, and I'm sure there would have been plenty of women happy to go out with him, and wherever that might lead.

But the drugging, etc. - so sick. And very sad for it all to end as it did.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
12. Justice at last.
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 02:28 PM
Apr 2018

His real karmic debt starts now and will likely continue for the rest of his life. That’s what I mean by saying Justice at last.

He’ll appeal it, of course, but in the meantime he is now a convicted felon. And if anyone else can still take him to court they will now.

B Stieg

(2,410 posts)
13. The times they ARE a-changing!
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 02:33 PM
Apr 2018

And we'll all be better off for it.
Now, what about that other guy who seems to have done something like this?
You know, the pResident.

Stuart G

(38,436 posts)
18. Unless the appeals overturn the conviction, this setence defines him.
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 02:47 PM
Apr 2018
"Guilty of sexual assault...tried by jury and convicted. "...that is what counts the most.


And that conviction will stick with him ....forever... that is quite a sentence...

spooky3

(34,461 posts)
15. MSNBC just showed him walking out briskly while holding his cane up in the air
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 02:43 PM
Apr 2018

Obviously he did not need it to walk.

SunSeeker

(51,576 posts)
20. Yes, lots of comments about him walking briskly not using his cane.
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 03:08 PM
Apr 2018

He is a big fraud. Yet his frail old man act worked with the judge, who let him go home after the verdict rather than go immediately to jail.

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)
26. He'll be forgotten in a generation.
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 03:53 PM
Apr 2018

What this means for his legacy is not that he will be remembered, it means no one will want to keep his memory going. Before this got out we would've waxed nostalgic about our favorite Cosby moments. Now we simply won't discuss him or his show.

The only people who will even know who he was will be old retro TV watchers who want to look at archives of old 80s shows.

shanti

(21,675 posts)
37. You mean the cane that was as thin as a pencil?
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 05:07 PM
Apr 2018

A prop for a phony. I heard he screamed out in court too.

appalachiablue

(41,153 posts)
42. A poster wrote that the cane was white. That's a mobility guide
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 08:57 PM
Apr 2018

for vision impairment, not stability- eh. The con who's supposed to be blind I guess walked out on the arm of an attorney w/o the cane. But who knows with this monster/actor who'd use anything for advantage.

I didn't see him scream- too bad. Shoulda thought of that decades ago before drugging and raping women. Pfft.

 

Amimnoch

(4,558 posts)
19. Very glad that justice was served, still very sad it was needed.
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 02:52 PM
Apr 2018

I'm very glad for the women who are finally getting justice for the terrible ordeals they were put through.

This whole case still makes me terribly sad. I was one of the MANY who really looked up to Bill Cosby. From my childhood days of watching him on Fat Albert to the Cosby Show of the 80's/90's. I feel for all the kids who grew up looking up to him as a great role model.

rocktivity

(44,577 posts)
24. Unless he pulls an Aaron Hernandez
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 03:25 PM
Apr 2018

Last edited Fri Apr 27, 2018, 03:29 PM - Edit history (2)

and vacates his sentence by vacating his life.


rocktivity

LenaBaby61

(6,976 posts)
27. Keith Hernandez ....
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 04:06 PM
Apr 2018

Was the Mets first baseman, and he also played for the St. Louis Cardinals.

I think you mean Aaron Hernandez.

BumRushDaShow

(129,165 posts)
28. They have an estimate in the OP article
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 04:07 PM
Apr 2018
O’Neill is expected to sentence Cosby at a later date — typically within 90 days.


I figure some time over the summer (unless something delays it to the fall).

appalachiablue

(41,153 posts)
25. Finally convicted, good. The poor women assaulted by this 'entertainer'
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 03:46 PM
Apr 2018

a deceitful, sick and egocentric monster, fraud con artist.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
31. It is still shocking to me that anyone would consider doing what he did. Who thinks like that?
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 04:24 PM
Apr 2018

It's mind blowing.

LenaBaby61

(6,976 posts)
33. Who thinks like that?
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 04:27 PM
Apr 2018

Cosby, and the current fat, treasonous, sexually assaulting/raping, disgusting pig installed in the White House, who hopefully will get HIS too sooner rather than later.

appalachiablue

(41,153 posts)
40. The clean, nice 'family man' act by a narcissist pscyhopath pervert
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 08:47 PM
Apr 2018

who finally got busted. I never bought into his wholesome schtick, something was off- and how.

LenaBaby61

(6,976 posts)
34. "To me, very telling his wife was not in court."
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 04:29 PM
Apr 2018

Yes, very telling that Camille his "enabler" was not in court for him.

Bayard

(22,108 posts)
46. Just makes me sad
Fri Apr 27, 2018, 12:26 AM
Apr 2018

When I was a kid, we were big fans of, "I Spy". Played his comedy records continually. Always watched The Cosby Show.

Just very, very disappointed in his personal life.

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