Lawyers for the 78-year-old comedian will ask a judge to throw out the criminal case against him, arguing that the case violates a prosecutor's decade old agreement not to charge him.
- Feb 2, 2016
AceShowbiz - Bill Cosby's lawyer will ask a Pennsylvania judge to throw out the sexual assault criminal case against him from the dozens of accusations that he molested women. The defense will argue that the case violates a prosecutor's decade old agreement not to charge the comedian.
According to Bill's lawyers, the comedian reached a supposed agreement with then-District Attorney Bruce Castor that he wouldn't be prosecuted and should testify freely in accuser Andrea Constand's 2004 suit.
That testimony, released in 2015, prompted the successor of Bruce Castor to reopen the case and ultimately charge Bill with felony sexual assault. The star of "The Bill Cosby Show" hasn't entered a plea.
Bruce is slated to be the defense key's witness. He insists that he forged an oral "non-prosecution" agreement in 2005 with Walter M. Phillips Jr., Bill's lawyer who died last year. But prosecutors said that no documentation exists to corroborate any such agreement. Prosecutors also argue that Bruce did not have the authority to bar his office forever from pursuing criminal charges against the comedian.
