The Los Angeles County district attorney has declined to bring criminal charges against comedian Bill Cosby stemming from sexual assault allegations by two women over separate incidents, one dating back to 1965 and the other to 2008, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The district attorney determined that prosecution was barred in one case by the statute of limitations, and in the second case by both the statute of limitations and insufficient evidence, the D.A.'s office said in a formal statement explaining the decision.
The decision in Los Angeles comes a week after Cosby was criminally charged in Pennsylvania with sexually assaulting a woman in his home near Philadelphia after plying her with drugs and alcohol in 2004. (Reporting by Steve Gorman)