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Bill Cosby’s first words upon release revealed

<p><span>Bill Cosby is out of prison and it seems he is not accustomed to a life of luxury anymore after being convicted on three accounts of aggravated assault.</span><br /><br /><span>The former star’s first moments have been revealed to the public, after Cosby’s friend and spokesperson Andrew Wyatt opened up about the hours that followed.</span><br /><br /><span>Wyatt told Daily Mail that Cosby’s first words were: “Andrew, is this a dream?”</span><br /><br /><span>“He said, 'Are you real?' I said, 'I'm real, touch me.'</span><br /><br /><span>“He said, 'Look, people can sometimes feel things in dreams.'</span><br /><br /><span>“And I said, 'Mr. Cosby this is real. You're free.'”</span></p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7842367/bill-cosby-6.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/eded8278e8264eaaaa7ee00bea88a098" /><br /><br /><span>Wyatt also revealed Cosby had been able to reunite with his wife Camille. 77.</span><br /><br /><span>He had not allowed her to see him in prison, but spoke to his wife on the phone everyday.</span></p> <p><span>Cosby was sent to prison on three counts of aggravated assault, after nearly 60 women accused the once beloved celebrity of sexual assault.</span><br /><br /><span>Wyatt says that when the Supreme Court ruled that Cosby could walk free despite his crimes, he kept the news to himself.</span></p> <p><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7842368/bill-cosby-7.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/a2654a37b60745f8a3fe4574951f9fd9" /><br /><br /><span>“I didn't tell anyone because it's been a roller-coaster and so many people have come with information saying that he's not going to be sentenced, he's not going to be charged, he's not going to be convicted…It's emotionally and mentally draining,” he said.</span><br /><br /><span>“I called Mrs. Cosby and said, ‘You’re not going to believe this.</span><br /><br /><span>“‘They've vacated his entire conviction. They threw it out in perpetuity.’</span><br /><br /><span>“And she said, ‘No, we need to check this.'''</span></p> <p><img id="__mcenew" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7842365/bill-cosby-4.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/34f0b45c484b46288be75f78debcdb63" /><br /><br /><span>Wyatt said at the moment Cosby was awoken from a deep sleep when guards to him to “get up” as he was “free.”</span><br /><br /><span>Wyatt said, “He said, 'I heard all these inmates shouting, kicking the doors, shouting 'Get outta here Bill, Uncle Bill, the Godfather.”</span><br /><br /><span>Cosby has gone blind, having lost his sight to glaucoma many years ago and told Wyatt, “I thought it was a fight going on. I don't know what's happening.”</span><br /><br /><span>A US court overturned Cosby’s conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago, which allowed his release from prison.</span><br /><br /><span>The state Supreme Court found that through an agreement with a previous prosecutor, it prevented him from being charged for allegedly drugging and molesting Andrea Constand in 2004.</span></p>

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Bill Cosby walks free

<p>Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby has been released from prison.</p> <p>Pennsylvania's highest court threw out Cosby's sexual assault conviction and released him from prison Wednesday (local time) in a stunning reversal of fortune for the comedian once known as "America's Dad".</p> <p>The court ruled that the prosecutor who brought the case was bound by his predecessor's agreement not to charge Cosby.</p> <p>The 83-year-old gave the v-for-victory sign to the cameras as he walked towards the helicopter which was taking him to his suburban Philadelphia home.</p> <p>Cosby served nearly three years of a three to 20 year sentence for drugging and violating Andrea Constant in 2004.</p> <p>The former Cosby Show star — the first celebrity tried and convicted in the #MeToo era — had no immediate comment.</p> <p>Cosby was arrested in 2015, when a district attorney armed with newly unsealed evidence brought charges against him just days before the 12-year statute of limitations was about to run out.</p> <p>But on Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said that District Attorney Kevin Steele, who made the decision to arrest Cosby, was obligated to stand by his predecessor's promise not to charge Cosby, though there was no evidence that promise was ever put in writing.</p> <p>As Cosby was promptly set free from the state prison in suburban Montgomery County and driven home, his appeals lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, said he should never have been prosecuted.</p> <p>“District attorneys can’t change it up simply because of their political motivation,” she said, adding that Cosby remains in excellent health, apart from being legally blind.</p> <p>In a statement, Steele said Cosby went free “on a procedural issue that is irrelevant to the facts of the crime.”</p> <p>He commended Constand for coming forward and added: “My hope is that this decision will not dampen the reporting of sexual assaults by victims. ... We still believe that no one is above the law — including those who are rich, famous and powerful.”</p>

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“Very sad day”: Disgraced star Bill Cosby offers support to rapist Harvey Weinstein

<p>Convicted sex offender Bill Cosby has shared a statement in support of Harvey Weinstein, claiming the movie executive’s rape trial was not fair and saying his conviction marked a “very sad day”.</p> <p>The disgraced comedian’s publicist Andrew Wyatt took to Instagram to release a statement which questioned where “wealthy and famous men” can “go in this country to find fairness and impartiality”.</p> <p>Yesterday, Weinstein was convicted of raping a former production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006 and sexually assaulting a slew of other women in 2013.</p> <p>Cosby’s account suggested the verdict was “not shocking” – but he placed the blame on the legal process.</p> <p>He said because jurors were exposed to media coverage of the high-profile case, they were swayed by “the sentiments of public opinion”.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B89geHGnjfT/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B89geHGnjfT/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">Official Statement From Andrew Wyatt Regarding The Verdict Of Harvey Weinstein: This is not shocking because these jurors were not sequestered, which gave them access to media coverage and the sentiments of public opinion. There’s no way you would have anyone believe that Mr. Weinstein was going to receive a fair and impartial trial. Also, this judge showed that he wanted a conviction by sending the jurors back to deliberate, after they were hung on many of the counts. Here’s the question that should haunt all Americans, especially wealthy and famous men...Where do we go in this country to find fairness and impartiality in the judicial system; and where do we go in this country to find Due Process? Lastly, if the #metoo movement isn’t just about Becky [White women], I would challenge #metoo and ask them to go back 400+ years and tarnish the names of those oppressors that raped slaves. This is a very sad day in the American Judicial System. #FreeBillCosby #FarFromFinished #DueProcess #JusticeReform</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/billcosby/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> Bill Cosby</a> (@billcosby) on Feb 24, 2020 at 11:17am PST</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>“There’s no way you would have anyone believe that Mr Weinstein was going to receive a fair and impartial trial,” said the statement.</p> <p>It also suggested the judge “wanted a conviction" as he told jurors to spend more time deliberating when they had been hung over some of the charges.</p> <p>“Here’s the question that should haunt all Americans, especially wealthy and famous men … where do we go in this country to find fairness and impartiality in the judicial system,” read the statement.</p> <p>It was then accompanied by hashtags including “#FreeBillCosby” and “#FarFromFinished”.</p> <p>In 2018, Cosby was found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault and sentenced to serve three to 10 years in prison.</p>

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Bill Cosby gives first prison interview: no “remorse”

<p>For the first time, disgraced star Bill Cosby has given an interview in prison. </p> <p>The 82-year-old continues to remain defiant about the sexual assault that landed him behind bars, and further insisted he’s not guilty and the jurors were “imposters.”</p> <p>Cosby said he will never admit to any wrongdoing, even if it means losing out on winning parole from SCI Phoenix, near Philadelphia, USA - where he is serving up to 10 years for drugging and molesting Andrea Constand in 2004. </p> <p>“When I come up for parole, they’re not going to hear me say that I have remorse,” Cosby said in a series of prison phone calls, as reported by<span> </span><em><a rel="noopener" href="https://blackpressusa.com/nnpa-newswire-exclusive-bill-cosby-speaks-from-prison/" target="_blank">BlackPressUSA</a>.com.</em></p> <p>The disgraced comedian added he believes he will be serving his full sentence. </p> <p><em>The Cosby Show </em>star further said his trial was unjust as his jurors were going to convict him no matter what evidence was presented. </p> <p>“It’s all a set-up. That whole jury thing. They were impostors,” Cosby said, and noted that one juror was overheard saying before the trial, “he’s guilty, we can all go home now.”</p> <p>Cosby - who refers to his jail cell as his “penthouse” - told a reporter he now spends his time in lockup lecturing fellow inmates during Saturday sessions of a prison reform program. </p> <p>“I go into my penthouse and lay down and start to think about how I can relay a message and give it on Saturdays so that they would hear it and feel it,” Cosby said.</p>

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Bill Cosby’s wife Camille breaks silence: “This is mob justice, not real justice”

<p>Bill Cosby’s wife Camille has broken her silence, calling for a probe into the “corrupt” office of the prosecutor who finally convicted her husband.</p> <p>The disgraced comedian’s wife of 54 years released a blistering statement, writing: “I am publicly asking for a criminal investigation of that district attorney and his cohorts. This is a homogeneous group of exploitative and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr Cosby’s life. If they can do this to Mr Cosby, they can do so to anyone.”</p> <p>Her comments come a week after <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/finance/legal/2018/05/juror-reveals-the-words-that-sealed-bill-cosbys-fate/">Cosby was convicted</a> </strong></span>of three charges of aggravated indecent assault following a three-week retrial in Philadelphia.</p> <p>The charges against Cosby were filed a decade after Andrea Constand, a former university basketball administrator, accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her in January 2005.</p> <p>Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, who prosecuted the case, campaigned on a promise that he would try Cosby after his predecessor did not want to do so.</p> <p>“In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs, who publicly and privately coerced cancellations of Bill Cosby’s scheduled performances; syndications of The Cosby Show; rescissions of honorary degrees and a vindictive attempt to close an exhibition of our collection of African-American art in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art,” Camille wrote.</p> <p>The 74-year-old’s statement also slammed the media, which she blamed for “frenzied, relentless demonisation of [Cosby] and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations.”</p> <p>She wrote in a Facebook post: "Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so... period. And the media ensured the dissemination of that propaganda by establishing barricades preventing the dissemination of the truth in violation of the protections of the First Amendment. Are the media now the people’s judges and juries?"</p> <p>"This is mob justice, not real justice," she added. "This tragedy must be undone not just for Bill Cosby, but for the country."</p> <p>No sentencing date has been set for Cosby, who remains under electronic monitoring in his Pennsylvania home.</p> <p>He faces up to 10 years in jail on each count.</p>

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Juror reveals the words that sealed Bill Cosby's fate

<p>One of the jurors who <a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/news/news/2018/04/bill-cosbys-outburst-in-court-after-guilty-verdict/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>found Bill Cosby guilty of sexual assault</strong></span></a> during a retrial has appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America to explain how the comedian’s own words sealed his fate.</p> <p><a href="http://www.news.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>News.com.au reports</strong></em></span></a>Harrison Snyder conceded in his interview that the trial, “wasn’t an open and shut case”, and the jury was greatly influenced by what happened in court.</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNYDNVideo%2Fvideos%2F448843655567000%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560" width="560" height="315" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p> <p>The 22-year-old says it was ultimately Cosby’s deposition, in which he confessed to giving women drugs to have sex with them, was the evidence needed to let him know he was guilty.</p> <p>“I think it was his deposition, really. Mr Cosby admitted to giving these Quaaludes to women, young women, in order to have sex with them,” Snyder said on Monday.</p> <p>The deposition was part of a civil case brought by accusers Andrea Constand and Snyder said he had no doubt the jury landed on the right decision of convicting the 80-year-old.</p> <p>Cosby has maintained his innocence and his lawyers have vowed to appeal.</p> <p>The jurors presiding over Cosby’s case released a statement about their decision.</p> <p>“After thoughtful and meticulous consideration of the information and evidence provided to us, we came to our unanimous verdict,” the jury said in the statement.</p> <p>“Not once were race or the #MeToo movement ever discussed, nor did either factor into our decision, as implied in various media outlets.”</p> <p>What are your thoughts?</p>

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Bill Cosby's outburst in court after guilty verdict

<p>Bill Cosby has been found guilty of three counts of sexual assault in a landmark trial in the US, which leaves the 80-year-old staring down the barrel of 10 years behind bars.</p> <p><a href="https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>The Daily Telegraph reports</strong></em></span></a> the disgraced comedian showed no emotion and looked down on the table in front of him as the verdict was read out, prompting tears from some victims.</p> <p>But Cosby’s calm exterior didn’t last long, when the team from the prosecution asked the judge to revoke Cosby bail because he was a “flight risk and has a private plane.”</p> <p>Cosby reportedly stood up and bellowed, “He doesn’t have a plane, you a**hole.”</p> <p>Judge Steve O’Neill yelled, “That’s enough!”</p> <p>Judge O’Neill ruled Cosby should not leave his Pennsylvania home and must be fitted with a GPS tracking device. He would remain free on $1 million (USD) bail but must surrender his passport. His sentencing is yet to be scheduled.</p> <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pGV5Xy8qCU4" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> <p>“Because of his age, his medical issues, I am not going to simply lock him up because of this,” said Mr O’Neill.</p> <p>The comedian now faces up to 10 years in prison on each count.</p> <p>What are your thoughts?</p> <p><em>Hero image credit: Twitter / The Onion</em></p>

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