The Bill Cosby trial ended Thursday with a jury finding the star guilty of drugging and molesting Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004 at his suburban Philadelphia home.
Cosby, 80, faces up to 30 years in jail for three counts of aggravated indecent assault, The Associated Press reported. He will be sentenced in 60 to 90 days.
Attorney Tom Mesereau said Cosby would appeal the conviction. “The fight is not over,” Mesereau said, the AP reported.
The 1980s TV megastar was stoic as the verdict was read, but called the district attorney an “a**hole” moments later when the prosecutor asked for Cosby’s bail to be revoked because he might flee, the AP reported. Judge Steven O’Neill did not revoke Cosby’s bail and he is free while awaiting sentencing.
Some of the five women who testified at his retrial after a hung jury last year that they also were also assaulted by Cosby shrieked and cried when the verdict was announced, the AP reported. Constand was stoic but hugged her lawyer and some members of the prosecution.
More than 60 women have accused Cosby of drugging and molesting them over five decades, the AP reported. It was the first major sexual assault trial since the #MeToo movement arose in October.
“The time for the defendant to escape justice is over. It’s finally time for the defendant to dine on the banquet of his own consequences,” prosecutor Stewart Ryan said, the AP reported.
Cosby was “nothing like the image that he played on TV,” prosecutor Kristen Feden said, the AP reported, referring to his morally upright, benign and lovable character Dr. Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show.”
Twitter reacted strongly to the verdict.
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