Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. This is David French and Sarah Isger. And we've

caught a lot, a lot to cover today. We had a big Supreme Court day today, Arizona Voting

Rights case, donor privacy case out of California. But that's not where we're starting, Sarah.

We are starting with the case that made that basically took everybody by surprise yesterday.

Shouldn't have taken people by surprise if you'd been paying close attention, which I

got to admit, I had not paid close attention to some of the procedural posturing in this case.

And then when I read this case, I realized exactly why it turned out the way it turned

out. And that is commonwealth of Pennsylvania versus William Henry Cosby Jr. So we're going

to talk about Bill Cosby first, then the Supreme Court of the United States, which is not

the way I thought that we were going to order this podcast today. But if you're talking

about cultural significance of a case, I think Cosby beats the Supreme Court, but we're

going to deal with the Supreme Court also. So Sarah, why don't why don't we launch into

the bill Cosby case? We're also going to talk a little bit about some developments in

the world of big tech at the very end briefly. But today's order is going to be Cosby,

Supreme Court, big tech, bye.

All right. So let's jump into it. Yeah.

The Cosby case, I'm going to skip to the trial portion. So they initially try him. It's

a hung jury. They do not get a conviction. They try him again. And this time introduce

evidence of previous bad acts using testimony from other women that ranged between 15 and

22 years ahead of time. Why didn't they charge those women? Statute of limitations had

run. So they're charging an incident from 2005. And then they get a conviction that time

on appeal, Cosby appeals to issues. One, that the previous, the prior bad acts were improperly

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