American comedian Bill Cosby, who is serving a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence, has again appealed the verdict that convicted him of sexual assault. In documents filed Tuesday with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, lawyers for the 83-year-old actor argue that five women should not have been allowed to testify at his trial.
They ensure that their testimonies " decades old ", and which were not part of the charges against him in this complaint, had influenced the jury.
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Moral figure
Bill Cosby was convicted in April 2018 of drugging and sexually assaulting former professional basketball player Andrea Constand, now 47, in 2004. The creator and hero of The Cosby Show was until then considered one of the most important moral figures of the black community in the United States.
Lawyers ensure that it was also " fundamentally unfair " to broadcast during his trial a statement he had given on his consumption of sedatives and his sexual practices in the 1970s.
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His conviction had already been upheld on appeal in December by the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Although the first trial was held in June 2017, the actor's conviction was considered the first of the #MeToo era and a victory in the fight against sexual violence against women.
Bill Cosby has been accused by dozens of women but the facts about Andrea Constand are the only ones to have been the subject of criminal proceedings.
