Accountability
Prosecutors ask Supreme Court to revive sexual assault case against Bill Cosby
Prosecutors are pushing the Supreme Court to reopen Bill Cosby’s case after his sexual assault conviction was overturned earlier this year.
In a filing released on Monday, prosecutors protested the case being thrown out, warning of the “dangerous precedent” it sets. In June, Cosby’s conviction was overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court due to an agreement he made in 2005, which was only recorded in one place – a press release. Cosby had agreed to give a “damaging” testimony, in which he disclosed things he had done illegally, if he was promised he wouldn’t be charged.
Kevin Steele, the Montgomery County District Attorney, said the overturned conviction was “an indefensible rule,” and said there would be an avalanche of criminal appeals if this one remains in place.
In the filing, Steele wrote, “This decision as it stands will have far-reaching negative consequences beyond Montgomery County and Pennsylvania. The U.S. Supreme Court can right what we believe is a grievous wrong.” The filing aims to have the case reviewed under the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Cosby’s attorneys have maintained that the press release was enough to clear him from being charged. The press release came from then-prosecutor Bruce Castor, who was unable to arrest Cosby due to insufficient evidence.
However, in the press release, Castor said he “will reconsider this decision should the need arise,” a promise that officials have since called “ambiguous”, attempting to decipher Castor’s meaning. Authorities coming after Castor arrested Cosby in 2015 and don’t think he ever made the promise to Cosby.
Steele’s bid to the Supreme Court has very little chance of being heard. Already, less than one percent of cases sent to the Supreme Court are heard, as at least four members of the court must agree to hear it.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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Keep in mind no one cared about Bill Cosby’s behavior, or the women who pursued him due to his fame for sex and other stuff, until he called out the Black Community for the self-created problems they were causing for themselves. After he had pointed out that the super-majority of problems Blacks deal with today, and then, are self-created he switched from being a “hero” and “icon” into a monster. That undermined the “Black are still victims of Racism, and this and that” claim and the “Left” did not like that. It is important to look at the sequence of events. Look at what people like Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, and others are constantly promoting and the consequences. This quote is unfortunately still applicable today:
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the
troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the
public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their
troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their
wrongs, partly because they want sympathy, and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances,
because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class
of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because
as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of
making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves
prominent before the public.”
— Booker T. Washington in his 1911 book, My Larger Education
Then look at what has been going on since the late 1960s. The racist, who are mainly Democrats pretending to not be racist, and other have not destroyed Black communities since the late 1960s. Look at how many Black communities have been destroyed and who did the destruction – Blacks who were mainly from those communities. Then look at what organizations like “BLM” and “AntiFA” are doing and their basic philosophy. This is why Bill Cosby started being attacked – he started pointing out inconvenient history and facts.