Comedian Bill Cosby in April 2018 was sentence to 10 years in prison on each of the three counts he was convicted on sexual assault Amebo9ja reports.
According to People in 2018, Bill Cosby has been convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand in January 2004.
Cosby was convicted on three aggravated indecent sexual assault charges, each of which carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
Cosby assaulted Constand, 45, in his Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, mansion in January 2004. The defense claimed that the sexual contact was consensual. Both sides presented 12 days of testimony and evidence to the seven-man, five-woman jury.
Cosby, who did not testify during his trial, denies similar allegations from more than 60 women.
According to the News getting to our desk, the disgraced comedian Bill Cosby is speaking out in his first interview since his conviction and imprisonment for sexual assault.
In a recent phone interview with the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s BlackPressUSA.com, Cosby, 82, called his trial a “set-up” and said he won’t tell a parole board that he feels remorse for his actions.
“I have eight years and nine months left,” Cosby told the outlet. “When I come up for parole, they’re not going to hear me say that I have remorse. I was there. I don’t care what group of people come along and talk about this when they weren’t there. They don’t know.”
“It’s all a set-up. That whole jury thing. They were imposters,” Cosby said regarding his trial.
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