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It's Wednesday, June 30th.

Today, why Bill Cosby is being released from prison?

And how critical race theory became a conservative talking point?

Today, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Bill Cosby, one of the biggest moments in the Me Too movement.

Manuel Royca Francia is a staff writer for the Post who covered the Cosby trial in 2018.

Today, Cosby was released from prison.

A state Supreme Court ruled that Cosby's fifth amendment rights against a self-incomination were violated at his trial.

The reasoning that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court gave is that Bill Cosby believed that he had immunity from future prosecution

because a previous district attorney had decided not to prosecute him.

And after that decision, he gave an extraordinary days-long deposition in a civil case that was filed against him by his main accuser, Andrea Constant.

And that deposition, which we have, that deposition is an extraordinary document because in it, Bill Cosby talks about how he would acquire quayludes to give to women whom he wanted to have sex with.

And that suggestion that he would use drugs to be the prelude to sexual activity with women fit exactly with the accusations that all of these women had been making for decades against him.

And he was saying that he gave them some kind of drug that knocked them out, that made them unable to move their arms, that made them unable to move their legs, that made them unable to say no or resist, and that he sexually assaulted them.

And that was used to great profit by the prosecutors who eventually won the conviction against him.

What the Supreme Court is saying is that Bill Cosby only agreed to say all that, only agreed to describe his pattern of behavior with drugs and women because he had been promised he would never be prosecuted for the accusations that have been leveled against him by this woman who really had looked up to him as a mentor, Andrea Constant.

So how long has Cosby already spent in prison, and how much longer was he supposed to be there?

Well, he was supposed to be in prison for at least three years, he was convicted in 2018.

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