Actor and comic Bill Cosby reaches the Montgomery County Courthouse for sentencing in his sexual attack trial, in Norristown, Pennsylvania, September 24, 2018.
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Prosecutors in Pennsylvania on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to examine a lower court’s judgment that reversed the sexual attack conviction of Bill Cosby.
Cosby, 84, had actually served about 3 years in jail after being condemned in 2018 of drugging and sexually attacking a Temple University employee more than a years previously.
But the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in June that a “non-prosecution agreement” with a previous district attorney must have prevented him from being criminally charged in the case. Cosby was launched from jail on June 30.
The District Attorney’s Office in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, submitted a petition for the high court to think about whether that arrangement– in which then-prosecutor Bruce Castor guaranteed not to submit criminal charges versus Cosby if the comic would affirm in a civil suit– must be dealt with as “a grant of immunity.”
The petition is “the right thing to do because of the precedent set in this case” by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele stated in a declaration.
“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,” Steele stated.
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