# Bill Cosby: Rapo

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 10, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-rapo/289339 "2005-02-10T03:54:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-rapo/289339/102 "2020-06-23T20:35:09Z")

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court agrees to hear Cosby rape appeal.

[https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/06/23/bill-cosby-granted-appeal-in-pennsylvania-sex-assault-case/](https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/06/23/bill-cosby-granted-appeal-in-pennsylvania-sex-assault-case/)

Because:

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> The Supreme Court has agreed to review two aspects of the case, including the judge’s decision to let prosecutors call five other accusers to testify about long-ago encounters with the once-powerful actor and comedian. Cosby’s lawyers have long challenged that testimony as remote and unreliable. The court will also consider, as it weighs the scope of the testimony allowed, whether the jury should have heard evidence that Cosby had given quaaludes to women in the past.
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> Secondly, the court will examine Cosby’s argument that he had an agreement with a former prosecutor that he would never be charged in the case. Cosby has said he relied on that agreement before agreeing to testify in the trial accuser’s civil lawsuit.

and Cosby hoping on the BLM bandwagon

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> “As we have all stated, the false conviction of Bill Cosby is so much bigger than him – it’s about the destruction of ALL Black people and people of color in America,” Wyatt said in a statement.
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> Cosby’s lawyers also challenged his classification as a sexually violent predator subject to lifetime supervision. The actor, who insists he had a consensual encounter with accuser Constand, has said he would never express remorse to the parole board.

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