Bill Cosby
His case will not be retried and he remains free
Bill Cosby will not go back to prison.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that Bill Cosby’s case will not be retried. He was released from prison in 2021.
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday (March 7) that Bill Cosby, 84, will not be retried in his sexual assault case. This is reported, among other things, by “The Hollywood Reporter”. The Supreme Court denied prosecutors’ motion to rehear the case and reinstate Cosby’s conviction. There was no justification for this.
So the decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last year stands and Bill Cosby does not have to go back to prison. The Supreme Court overturned Bill Cosby’s aggravated sexual assault conviction in 2021. The actor and comedian, who became a superstar with “The Bill Cosby Show” in the 1980s and 1990s, has been free since the end of June.
The verdict was overturned in 2021
Cosby was found guilty in 2018 of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004. The actor had denied the allegations. More than 60 women had also raised similar allegations against him.
The reason the judgment was overturned in 2021 was a procedural error: a prosecutor investigating the case in 2005 had pledged not to prosecute the actor should he testify in a civil trial on the matter. In that lawsuit, Cosby settled out of court and paid more than $3.3 million.
In 2015, however, a successor to the then public prosecutor initiated criminal proceedings. The court also dealt with testimonies by Cosby from the civil case that the Supreme Court said should not have been admitted under the agreement – as well as the accounts of five women who testified at the trial.
Cosby was released shortly after the verdict was overturned. Even then it was said that the case should no longer be reopened in court. Many of the allegations made by the other women had already expired, which is why the process was limited to one case.