.By Aaron Miller-
Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby and his wife Camille have attacked Judge Steven O’Neill in the ongoing battle to appeal his criminal conviction.
The scathing criticism comes in which they condemn judge O’Neill as immoral , corrupt and racist, is an angry response to an outcome not going their way. It is also characterised by a denial of the fact that the former television star messed up by sedating women he was supposed to mentor and sexually assaulted them after they lost their senses under the strong intoxicants he subjected them too.
Judge O’Neil wrote in a lengthy brief filed Tuesday that he let five other accusers testify at the 2018 trial because their accounts had “chilling similarities” that pointed to a “signature” crime.
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Cosby is appealing his conviction of a 3-10 year prison sentence on three counts of drugging and molesting a woman in his home in suburban Philadelphia in 2004. He argued in recent filings that his appeal has been held up by O’Neill’s delay in explaining his sentence as required by Pennsylvania law.
O’Neill has now presented a 143-page brief, dismissing Cosby’s legal arguments that his trials were flawed, his conviction should be overturned and his sentence was unfair and he should be allowed out of prison on bail.
One of the key issues in Cosby’s case is the difference between Cosby’s first trial, which ended in a hung jury, and his second, which ended in his conviction. However, the judge insisted that judges are not bound by decisions of their previous cases.
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Each woman, the judge said, was substantially younger than Cosby and physically fit. O’Neill said that though Cosby’s desire to mentor the women may have been genuine, they were given an intoxicant under circumstances in which they were incapable of consent when they were assaulted and under Cosby’s charge.
O’Neill noted that prosecutors asked to call 19 witnesses, but he allowed only five to mitigate any prejudicial effect against Cosby.
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