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?
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
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.
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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?
It's the Senate parliament funkadelician all over again
Agreed, this would be a bullshit twist even in a fucking Phoenix Wright game, much less our broken ass country. :gamer-gulag:
I'm ESL and I genuinely had to check whether "foregone" had some meaning I was not aware of but nope
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It's a made up past tense conjugation of forgo. As in to go without something.
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)
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