By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Over a month ago, lawyers for Bill Cosby formerly filed a motion to the state Supreme Court in Pennsylvania, seeking to overturn the three guilty verdicts handed down in 2018. The August filing states that the trial court stripped Cosby of the presumption of innocence and relieved the prosecution of its burden of proof when it allowed the jury to hear decades-old, excessive uncharged bad act evidence that was absent a legitimate propensity purpose. Specifically, allowing testimony from five women who offered varying accounts of Cosby’s alleged sexual misconduct stemming from […]
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