By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--April 26, 2018
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Bill Cosby has been convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple employee Andrea Constand in January 2004. Montgomery County jurors deliberated for about 14 hours, beginning Wednesday, before handing down the verdict. Cosby was convicted on three charges, each of which carries a prison sentence of three years: aggravated indecent assault: penetration with lack of consent; penetration while unconscious; and penetration after administrating an intoxicant. Prosecutors alleged that he assaulted Constand, now 44, in his Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, mansion in January 2004. The defense countered that the sexual contact was consensual. Both sides presented 12 days of testimony and evidence to the seven-man, five-woman jury. Cosby denies similar allegations from more than 60 women. Prosecutors portrayed Cosby as a serial sexual predator who deceived people with his persona as “America’s Dad,” while his defense has said that women have fabricated their accounts.
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