{"id":647034,"date":"2019-06-28T16:15:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"\"><div id=\"attachment_957762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/Bill-Cosby.jpg\"  alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-957762 lazyload\" \/><noscript><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.co"},"modified":"2019-06-28T16:15:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:15:39","slug":"cosby-appeals-sexual-assault-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/28\/cosby-appeals-sexual-assault-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosby Appeals Sexual Assault Conviction |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"attachment_957762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/Bill-Cosby.jpg\"  alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-957762 lazyload\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/Bill-Cosby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-957762 lazyload\"  \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: Actor and comedian Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse after sentencing in his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 25, 2018. REUTERS\/Brendan McDermid\/File Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comedian Bill Cosby, who is serving a three and a half year jail sentence, on Tuesday, appealed a Pennsylvania court\u2019s verdict that found him guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis filing is an important step in ensuring that Mr Cosby receives a hearing from a fair and impartial court,\u201d the actor\u2019s spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Constitution guarantees that right to Mr Cosby \u2014 and to all Americans \u2014 and he looks forward to securing justice in the court of appeal,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The 81-year-old, who shattered racial barriers with his pioneering role as a dad and doctor on the hit television series \u201cThe Cosby Show,\u201d (1984-1992), was found guilty in April 2018 of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, now 46, at his Philadelphia mansion.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first trial and first guilty verdict for sexual assault since the advent of the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier trial in June 2017 ended in a mistrial after the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2018, a Pennsylvania judge sentenced the actor to three and a half years in prison on three counts of aggravated indecent assault: penetration without Constand\u2019s consent; penetration when she was unconscious and penetration after having been drugged. He was immediately incarcerated.<\/p>\n<p>Although more than 60 women charged that they had been victims of sexual assault by Cosby, the famous comedian was tried criminally only for Constand\u2019s assault, since the statute of limitations had expired in the other cases.<\/p>\n<p>Cosby insists he was unjustly convicted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica will be great when it fulfils the last four words of the revered Pledge of Allegiance \u2026. \u2018and justice for all,&#8217;\u201d Cosby\u2019s wife Camille said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>A dozen women who say they were victims of Cosby have filed civil suits against the actor seeking compensation for damages.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '247107802609931');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Actor and comedian Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse after sentencing in his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 25, 2018. REUTERS\/Brendan McDermid\/File Photo Comedian Bill Cosby, who is serving a three and a half year jail sentence, on Tuesday, appealed a Pennsylvania court\u2019s verdict that found him guilty of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":647035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[220,718,2007,1311,630],"class_list":["post-647034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood","tag-appeals","tag-assault","tag-conviction","tag-cosby","tag-sexual"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cosby Appeals Sexual Assault Conviction | - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/28\/cosby-appeals-sexual-assault-conviction\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Cosby Appeals Sexual Assault Conviction | - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"FILE PHOTO: Actor and comedian Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse after sentencing in his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 25, 2018. 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