Pennsylvania’s highest court on Wednesday overturned sex assault conviction on Bill Cosby.
On the 26, April 2018 Bill Cosby was convicted of drugging and molesting a onetime friend in 2004.
This marks the first such conviction of a celebrity since the #MeToo movement that has brought down rich and powerful men for their treatment of women.
Cosby, 83, best known as the lovable father from the 1980s TV hit “The Cosby Show,” was faceing 10 years in prison for each of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand, 45, following a three-week trial at the Montgomery County courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Judge Steven O’Neill then ruled that Cosby could remain out of jail on $1 million bail pending sentencing at a later date, and he left the courthouse.
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But on Wednesday the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said it found an agreement with a previous prosecutor that prevented him from being charged in the case and the testimony tainted the trial, even though a lower appeals court had found it appropriate to show a signature pattern of drugging and molesting women.
“Cosby’s convictions and judgment of sentence are vacated, and he is discharged,” the court’s 79-page finding reads.
