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In Bill Cosby Case, Supreme Court Is Asked to Toss Ruling That Freed Him - The New York Times
Nov 29, 2021 1 min, 43 secs
The prosecutors who brought the 2018 sexual assault case are appealing the decision in June by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that overturned the jury verdict.

Prosecutors who say Bill Cosby belongs in prison are asking the United States Supreme Court to throw out an appellate court ruling earlier this year that overturned his 2018 conviction for sexual assault on due process grounds.

His release followed a ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that Mr.

Cosby’s rights had been violated when the Montgomery County District Attorney’s office pursued a criminal case against him despite what the appellate court found was a binding “non-prosecution agreement” given to him by a previous district attorney.

The petition for review, filed last Wednesday by the district attorney’s office but only made public Monday, challenges that decision, arguing that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in its ruling.

Bill Cosby was released from prison June 30, 2021, after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his 2018 conviction for sexual assault. Now, prosecutors are asking the U.S.

Supreme Court to throw out the ruling.

asks the United States Supreme Court to throw the Constitution out the window, as it did, to satisfy the #metoo mob,” the statement said.

Supreme Court will agree to hear the case.

But in its 6-1 ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that Mr.

“Petitioning to ask the High Court for review was the right thing to do,” Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R.

Steele said Monday in a statement, “because of the precedent set in this case by the majority opinion of Pennsylvania Supreme Court that prosecutors’ statements in press releases now seemingly create immunity.”.

The district attorney’s office referenced an argument put forward by one of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices, Kevin Dougherty, who said in an opinion that no district attorney had the “power to impose on their successors — in perpetuity, no less — the kind of non-prosecution agreement that Castor sought to convey to Cosby.”

The chief justice of the Pennsylvania high court, Max Baer, has said, though, that the court’s ruling did not find Mr

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