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       Bill Cosby's Mistrial
       By: guest6 Date: June 18, 2017, 5:09 am
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       Dozens of rape victims have come forward and still no
       conviction.
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       Bill Cosby's Alleged Victims React to His Sex Assault Mistrial:
       'It Ain't Over 'Till It's Over'
       After a Pennsylvania judge granted a mistrial after a jury
       announced they were deadlocked for the second time in the sexual
       assault trial of Bill Cosby, one of the actor and comedian’s
       multiple accusers is speaking out about what that means.
       “It’s not an acquittal,” Tamara Green, a retired California
       attorney who first came forward with allegations against Cosby
       in 2005, tells PEOPLE of Saturday’s mistrial.
       She adds, “I have faith in the jury system of the United
       States.”
       The comedian is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting
       former Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his Elkins
       Park, Pennsylvania, mansion in January 2004. The District
       Attorney has already announced that they plan to retry Cosby in
       the case.
       The six-day trial followed a lengthy scandal in which dozens of
       women have come forward with stories of how Cosby, 79, allegedly
       sexually abused and assaulted them over decades. The Cosby Show
       alum has denied every claim.
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       Re: Bill Cosby's Mistrial
       By: paralambano Date: June 18, 2017, 5:57 am
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       The prosecution has something like four months to ask for a
       retrial or something like that.
       With all those accusers and accusations, it appears it will go
       on for some time.
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       #Post#: 15269--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Bill Cosby's Mistrial
       By: Kerry Date: June 19, 2017, 5:11 am
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       [quote author=paralambano link=topic=1227.msg15255#msg15255
       date=1497783451]
       The prosecution has something like four months to ask for a
       retrial or something like that.
       With all those accusers and accusations, it appears it will go
       on for some time.
       para .  .  .  .
       [/quote]I don't know the reason for it, but the judge in this
       case did not allow all the women who could have testified to do
       so.  If his goal was to save time, his plan backfired, resulting
       in a hung jury and possibly another trial thus not saving any
       time whatsoever.
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       Johnson is testifying for the prosecution under a Pennsylvania
       law that permits someone with a claim of sexual assault that was
       never prosecuted to testify against their alleged assailant in
       other cases.
       Before the trial, prosecutors sought permission to call 13
       accusers whose testimony, taken together, might show that Cosby
       had a pattern of using drugs to commit sexual assault. Judge
       Steven T O’Neill permitted just one of those women, Kacey, to
       testify.
       It seems pretty obvious to me the man's guilty; and I think if
       all 13 had been allowed to testify, the jurors wouldn't have had
       the slightest doubt about it.
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       Re: Bill Cosby's Mistrial
       By: paralambano Date: June 19, 2017, 11:24 am
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       Kerry -
       I was watching CBS news this morning (I prefer CBS for their
       less breathless, more measured reporting/news-reading). It had a
       lady legal expert on and she said that the prosecution had up to
       a year to ask for a retrial and that the statute of limitations
       goes in effect for all the other accusers for criminal cases. I
       understand that he can be tried civilly, however.
       Ya, something's up it appears especially with up to 40 accusers.
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