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23: Bill Cosby - Bonus Episode

#SistersInLaw

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.910.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The #SistersInLaw convene a special mid-week meeting to look at the appalling news about Bill Cosby.  Why did the courts do what they did and is there a way to legally justify it?  Have times really changed?

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Transcript

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0:41.0

Welcome to a special mini episode of hashtag Sisters in Law. It's Wednesday evening, the

0:49.0

Saturday afternoon and we have not yet had the chance to discuss this among ourselves.

0:54.0

But this afternoon, I suspect my sisters were surprised as I was to learn that Bill

1:00.0

Cosby, previously convicted in Pennsylvania in state court of sexual assault, was suddenly

1:07.0

released from prison where he was serving a sentence of three to ten years. He had only served two of that sentence.

1:15.0

Were you guys all surprised?

1:18.0

Yes, I'm sure we all were surprised because the district court and the appellate court had been very clear on facts

1:29.0

that seemed to now be decided differently by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

1:36.0

And there was no thought in my mind that that would be the outcome.

1:41.0

I was very surprised. I mean, it just seemed to come out of nowhere to the point that the initial tweets I saw about it.

1:47.0

I wondered if they were real. And it just seemed so hard to...

1:54.0

My gut, my viscera, it was so hard to imagine under what circumstance after that trial, after the allegations, he would be let free.

2:03.0

But then obviously then I got the opinion and began frantically reading it and texting with y'all.

2:09.0

I gave that away a little on Twitter to figure out exactly what was going on.

2:14.0

And just realized that it was just a very interesting set of facts in law that resulted in what happened today.

2:25.0

Well, maybe we can get some terminology down to help.

2:28.0

Pennsylvania State courts are a little bit different than other courts. They use different names.

2:33.0

So their trial courts are called the Court of Common Please. That's where Cosby was convicted.

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