A judge on Friday in Los Angeles appeared strongly inclined to allow Bill Cosby to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege and avoid giving a deposition in the lawsuit of a woman who alleges he sexually abused her when she was 15 in the mid-1970s. At a hearing to argue the issue, Superior Court Judge Craig Karlan agreed with Cosby's attorney that the 84-year-old has a reasonable fear of again facing criminal charges for one or more of the many sexual assault allegations that have been publicly aired against him and has a right to avoid saying anything under oath that might lead to such charges. "It does appear he has a reasonable fear of prosecution, and if new information came out, that could cause a prosecutor to change their mind," Karlan said.
Sundance Review: ‘We Need To Talk About Cosby’ Docuseries
23.01.2022 - 01:41 / deadline.com
The primary simultaneous imbalance and blessing of W. Kamau Bell’s We Need To Talk About Cosby is that even with a running time of four-hours, it’s clear by the end there’s still a lot more to say about the ex-convicted sex offender who was once America’s Dad.
Which is sort of the point of the United Shades of America host directed docuseries, premiering today at the virtual Sundance Film Festival and on January 30 on Showtime. After potent interviews with fellow comedians, journalists, cultural commentators, and lawyers as well as several of the dozens and dozens of survivors of Cosby’s sexual assaults in the docuseries, when Bell asks towards the conclusion of the fourth episode if you can “separate the art from the artist, and should you?” the conversation has no choice but to continue in the existential afterparty.
Sprung free last year by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from his 2018 sentence for the 2004 rape of Andrea Constand, the now 84-year old unrepentant Cosby remains a monster in the minds of most for his decades of predatory, cruel and savage violations. At the same time, the actor was a constant and expanding presence from the early 1960s to the ratings topping sitcom success of The Cosby Show and well into the 21st century, even after his 2015 arrest. The cultural blast radius of the actor and activist with his preaching to Black America and more of the value of education, equality and empowerment cannot be denied either.
For an America that often likes things to be binary at best, the excruciating truth is Cosby is complex.
“The juxtaposition is just bananas,” Cosby Show vet Eden Tirl succinctly says in the surprisingly spry series. And that is much more than a Black thing, as Bell explores in the deft
Bill Cosby likely to avoid testifying in sex assault lawsuit
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- A Los Angeles judge on Friday appeared strongly inclined to allow Bill Cosby to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege and avoid giving a deposition in the lawsuit of a woman who alleges he sexually abused her when she was 15 in the mid-1970s.At a hearing to argue the issue, Superior Court Judge Craig Karlan agreed with Cosby's attorney that the 84-year-old has a reasonable fear of again facing criminal charges for one or more of the many sexual assault allegations that have been publicly aired against him, and has a right to avoid saying anything under oath that might lead to such charges.“It does appear he has a reasonable fear of prosecution, and if new information came out, that could cause a prosecutor to change their mind,” Karlan said.
Bill Cosby's lawyer asks Supreme Court not to revive his sexual assault case
An attorney for Bill Cosby asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to reject prosecutors' recent bid to revive his criminal sexual assault case now that he's been released from prison. The 84-year-old actor and comedian has been free since June, when a Pennsylvania appeals court overturned his conviction and released him after nearly three years. The state’s highest court found that Cosby believed he had a nonprosecution agreement with a former district attorney when he gave damaging testimony in the accuser's 2005 lawsuit.That testimony later led to his arrest in 2015.
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