Now this is the kind of 2021 curveball I've been looking for
I did not expect to see Bill Cosby's name attached to anything other than a quaaludes joke until after he died.
bars future prosecution too
bill's walking out today
we have officially rewound to 2013
Jfc
Can it be appealed or does that not apply here?
(not that it matters, because we know how the fucking supreme court will respond)
When has a prosecutor's spoken promise ever mattered outside of this one instance? The legal system lies to defendants all the fucking time. But now they're worried about keeping their word?
Agreed, this would be a bullshit twist even in a fucking Phoenix Wright game, much less our broken ass country. :gamer-gulag:
The court called Cosby’s arrest “an affront to fundamental fairness, particularly when it results in a criminal prosecution that was forgone for more than a decade.”
I'm ESL and I genuinely had to check whether "foregone" had some meaning I was not aware of but nope
forgone
It's a made up past tense conjugation of forgo. As in to go without something.
There was no evidence that promise was ever put in writing.
So like they are just taking his word that he had an ironclad protection from prosecution? WTAF?
Cosby went through a civil case in which he was compelled to testify. It was not a criminal case, so his 5th Amendment right to silence did not apply. His testimony in the civil case included lots of illegal things.
This testimony was then used to incriminate Cosby in the case that landed him in prison. The use of the testimony has now been determined to be a violation of the 5th Amendment as Cosby had no opportunity to avoid self-incrimination in the civil case.
Of course, there were piles of other evidence that was submitted against Cosby in the criminal case. The civil testimony wasn't critical to get him locked up, but this is yet another example of how rich people have it easy in the legal system. Nobody poorer than Cosby could ever grab that needle in a haystack and successfully appeal.
That's actually makes a bit of sense when you put it that way (not that I'm pleased about the situation)
No, fortunately. This was the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, so it won't be precedent for other states.
under this precedent
did weinstein get got because of improper admission of evidence and prosecutors reneging on an agreement not to prosecute him?
did weinstein get got under Penn law?
Joe’s gonna slip up in a press conference and give him the Presdential Medal of Freedom zip zop zoopity bop, Jack :biden:
this wouldn't have happened if the Chapogynists hadn't taken that photo with his star.
They want Cosby to disappear from public but also not be in jail so that respectability politics won't be tainted by association with him as they keep trying to destroy BLM
i'd be interested in hearing the state's best argument for why that evidence was/should've been admitted in the first place.
but, without that, looks like those philly morons really botched it.
