Cosby prosecutors urge Supreme Court to restore conviction

2 years ago 348

Matt Slocum/AP

FILE - Bill Cosby arrives for his sentencing proceeding astatine the Montgomery County Courthouse, Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, successful Norristown, Pa. Prosecutors asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reappraisal the determination that overturned Cosby’s conviction. In a petition filed Monday, Nov. 29, 2021 they wrote that courts should not equate a expected committedness made by a erstwhile authoritative to beingness immunity. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

By: The Associated Press & Scripps National

Posted at 8:26 PM, Nov 29, 2021

and past updated 2021-11-29 21:26:57-05

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reappraisal Bill Cosby’s intersexual battle lawsuit and reconstruct his conviction.

They judge the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred erstwhile it overturned Cosby’s condemnation successful June and released the 84-year-old histrion from prison.

In a petition released Monday, they wrote that courts should not equate a determination announced successful a property merchandise to beingness immunity.

The state’s precocious tribunal says Cosby relied connected a committedness helium would ne'er beryllium charged erstwhile helium gave damaging grounds that was aboriginal utilized against him.

Cosby was convicted of drugging and molesting Andrea Constand successful 2004.

He spent astir 3 years successful situation earlier his condemnation was overturned.

In effect to the petition from the prosecutors, a spokesperson for Cosby said the territory attorney's bureau is "unwilling to judge its epic loss," CNN reports.