Bill Cosby's lawyer argues with the DA during a hearing about his rape accusers

Invoice Cosby was again in a Pennsylvania courtroom on Tuesday the place a decide was deciding whether or not or to not permit 13 of the ladies who've accused the actor of rape to testify in opposition to him in his upcoming trial.

The 79-year-old was all smiles although as he entered the courtroom with members of his authorized group, smiling and waving to these within the crowd and at one level joking with the safety guards by telling them: 'Do not tase me bro.' 

He walked into the courtroom room holding a cane which he didn't appear to make use of, selecting as an alternative to lean on a member of his authorized group. 

Issues had been far much less jovial nevertheless as soon as the listening to acquired underway, with the district legal professional and protection group partaking in a screaming match with each other. 

Montgomery County District Lawyer Kevin Steele took challenge with the protection's naming of the 13 victims, saying that they had been releasing particulars in regards to the people in hopes of intimidating them earlier than the trial.

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Jovil fella: Invoice Cosby (above on Tuesday) was all smiles as he entered a Pennsylvania courtroom on Tuesday, joking with safety guards: 'Do not tase me bro'

On the offense: Cosby's lawyer Brian McMonagle (above along with his fellow counsel Angela Agrusa) argued that the names of all 13 accusers ought to be made public in courtroom 

Case: Cosby faces 10 years in jail if convicted of sexually assaulting a former Temple College basketball group supervisor Andrea Costand (above in December 2015)

Cosby's lawyer Brian McMonagle responded to this by saying: 'Most of them have been interviewed on tv. Who's hiding names? A few of them have been interviewed for books. A few of them have been on excursions.'

He then added: 'I actually don't care what their names are. Is the world not going to know their names? What are we doing right here? That is foolish. It truly is foolish.'

Of the 13 ladies who're in search of to presumably testify within the upcoming trial, the identities of 11 have made public by the ladies coming ahead themselves to provide interviews and discuss their allegations in opposition to Cosby. 

Choose Steven T. O'Neill finally dominated that the 2 ladies who had not but been publicly revealed shouldn't be named in courtroom paperwork out of courtesy. 

Cosby faces 10 years in jail if convicted of sexually assaulting a former Temple College basketball group supervisor Andrea Costand.

His attorneys are hoping that after this two-day listening to the decide will rule that the 13 ladies who've accused him of drugging and raping them previously is not going to be allowed to testify in courtroom.

The protection had initially hoped to query the ladies in particular person over this two-day interval, nut decide O'Neill rejected that movement.  

The protection plans to show that the intercourse between Cosby and Constand - who's brazenly homosexual and was in a relationship with a lady on the time of the alleged assault - was consensual.

BILL COBY'S 13 ACCUSERS

Heidi Thomas (Then: 24)

Thomas' agent despatched the aspiring actress to fulfill Cosby for profession recommendation and the limo he despatched took her to a personal home the place she stated he gave her a drink so she might play the intoxicated particular person in a script he gave her. Throughout intermittent bouts of consciousness, she stated, she was bare and Cosby compelled her to carry out oral intercourse.

 Jane Doe 1 (Then: 21)

She was a flight attendant when she met Cosby in about 1964. After being associates for a number of months, she stated, he provided her Champagne on the Drake Lodge in Chicago, which left her unable to thrust back his sexual advances earlier than she handed out.

Jane Doe 2 (Then: Early 20s)

Cosby provided her quaaludes in a limousine at some point, which she stated she declined. She then had three or 4 glasses of Champagne however believes they contained an intoxicant that left her unconscious. She awakened bare in a lodge room feeling sore and stated she had been sexually assaulted.

Cindra Ladd (Then: 21)

Ladd, a model-turned-Hollywood govt married to former MGM chairman Alan Ladd Jr., met Cosby in 1969 when he provided profession recommendation. They had been at his pal's home in New York at some point when she complained about having a headache and he gave her a capsule he referred to as "a miracle treatment" from his physician. She grew to become incapacitated, and Cosby raped her, she stated.

 Donna Motsinger (Then: 26)

Motsinger was a waitress on the Trident restaurant in Sausalito, California, a favourite of Cosby's. He befriended Motsinger and her 9-year-old son. In 1972, Motsinger stated, she accepted an invite to Cosby's present and drank wine he gave her within the limousine on the way in which there. When a headache ensued, she took a capsule he handed her. She stated she remembers being fondled earlier than waking up the subsequent day, almost bare, at her own residence.

Margie Shapiro (Then: 19)

Shapiro labored at Fortress Donuts in Santa Monica, California, in 1975 when Cosby stopped by. He invited her to the set of Mom, Jugs & Velocity after which to a cocktail party, she says, however as an alternative took her to a home close to the Playboy Mansion, the place they performed pinball, fueled by Cosby's problem that whoever misplaced must take a capsule she believed to be a quaalude. She misplaced. She stated she remembers waking as much as discover Cosby having intercourse along with her.

 Linda Brown (Then: 21)

Brown's agent despatched the aspiring mannequin to attend Cosby's present in Toronto and have dinner with him afterward in 1969. He invited her to his lodge room to provide her a present and provided her a soda that brought about her to black out, she stated, earlier than raping her.

Therese Serignese (Then: 18)

Serignese, now a nurse, was within the present store of the Las Vegas Hilton in about 1975 when she met Cosby. He later invited her to his present after which to a room backstage, the place he gave her two capsules that left her incapacitated earlier than he raped her, she stated. Cosby, in a 2006 deposition in Constand's lawsuit, testified that he gave Serignese quaaludes earlier than a consensual sexual encounter.

Linda Kirkpatrick (Then: 25)

Kirkpatrick met Cosby whereas taking part in in opposition to him in a tennis match in 1981. He provided her tickets to his present on the Las Vegas Hilton, the place he gave her a drink in his dressing room that left her incapacitated, she stated. She subsequent remembers him being on high of her, kissing her and rubbing in opposition to her.

Rebecca Neal (Then: 28)

Neal labored as a masseuse at a Las Vegas well being membership the place Cosby performed tennis within the mid-1980s. He befriended her mom and aunt there, main her to simply accept an invite to his present on the Las Vegas Hilton and dinner afterward. Cosby urged her to have a drink set earlier than her whereas he ate. She stated he later raped her in his room whereas she was too disoriented to provide consent. 

Lise-Lotte Lublin (Then: 23)

Lublin met Cosby in 1989. She and her mom went for a run with Cosby, and he gave them present tickets. He prodded her to take two drinks to loosen up, which she finally did. She stated she remembers seeing Cosby stroking her hair and strolling down a corridor earlier than she awakened at residence two days later. She stated she believes she was sexually assaulted.

Kacey (Then: 29)

The witness labored for one in all Cosby's brokers and had identified the entertainer for six years when he requested her to debate her appearing ambitions. He was in a gown when she arrived and provided her wine and a capsule that she consumed. She stated she then remembers being sexually assaulted by Cosby on his mattress.

Janice Baker-Kiney (Then: 23)

Baker-Kinney  went to a pizza celebration at a close-by residence the place Cosby was staying in 1982. He insisted she take two capsules, she stated, earlier than the backgammon sport they had been taking part in went blurry. She stated she remembers seeing her shirt unbuttoned and his pants unzipped earlier than she awoke bare with indicators she had been sexually assaulted.

In her affidavit Constand instructed police that Cosby gave her wine and capsules after which sexually assaulted her whereas she was unconscious.

'I acquired scared,' Constand instructed police of the alleged assault. 'I had no energy in my legs. They felt rubbery and like jelly. I felt spacey. The whole lot was blurry or dizzy. I had no thought to name 911.'

She later instructed police: 'I instructed him, "I am unable to even discuss, Mr. Cosby." I began to panic.'

Constand claims she arrived at Cosby's residence on the night time in query and was greeted by the actor, who was sporting a sweatsuit.

The 2 spoke about Constand's future, and he or she instructed Cosby she was feeling 'drained' and 'emotionally occupied.'

That's when Cosby allegedly went upstairs and returned with three blue capsules. telling Constand: 'These will make you're feeling good. The blue issues will take the sting off.'

Constand claims she then requested if the capsules had been natural, to which Cosby replied: 'Sure. Down them. Put 'em down. Put them in your mouth.'

In accordance with the affidavit of possible trigger, Cosby then instructed Constand to have some wine, and shortly after she started to have bother talking and seeing.

Cosby then allegedly instructed her to lie down on the sofa, and shortly after, in line with the affidavit of possible listening to, was 'fondling her breasts, put his arms into her pants, and penetrated her vagina along with his fingers'.

He additionally allegedly took her hand and positioned it on his erect penis.

Constand claims she awakened hours later round 4am and realized her bra was undone and above her breasts and that her sweater was bunched up.

As she made her method to the door she claims Cosby was standing there in a gown and holding a muffin, which he handed to her as she left whereas saying: 'Alright.'

Constand, the previous director of operations for Temple's ladies's basketball group and a one time faculty basketball star herself, launched a authorized swimsuit in opposition to Cosby, a person she referred to as her 'mentor', in March 2005.

Now 42, she stated she first met Cosby, a Temple alum, in November 2002 and the pair grew to become associates and he or she was a frequent visitor at dinner events at his residence.

The case in opposition to him emerged simply days earlier than Pennsylvania's 12-year statute of limitation deadline for urgent fees was about to expire and regardless of a earlier DA declining to cost Cosby a decade in the past.

Cosby beforehand stated below oath that he had consensual sexual contact with Constand.

The legal grievance alleges that on the night time in query Cosby instructed Constand to take three blue capsules that left her feeling weak after which led her to a settee the place the assault passed off.

When she awakened the subsequent morning he gave her a muffin and despatched her residence.

Steele stated on the press convention in December that Cosby made two failed sexual advances in direction of Constand earlier than the incident now in query.

The affidavit of possible trigger describes each incidents, in addition to the night time of the alleged assault.

Constand claims that the primary time Cosby made an advance at her was after the 2 shared a meal at his home and had been sitting on his couch having a dialogue.

That's when 'with out warning, Cosby reached over and touched her pants, her waist, and her inside thigh', in line with the affidavit of possible trigger.

She claims she then excused herself, went to the lavatory, gathered her issues and left.

The subsequent time he made an advance at her additionally occurred at his residence in Elkins Park, and this time he 'unbuttoned her pants and commenced touching her,' in line with the affidavit of possible trigger.

As soon as once more Constand claims she left quickly after.

Then, someday between mid-January and mid-February 2004, the alleged sexual assault occurred.

Constand later filed a civil swimsuit in opposition to Cosby which he settled for undisclosed phrases in 2006. He additionally agreed to provide a deposition, which was launched final July.

It was the discharge of that deposition and the admissions that Cosby made that led to Montgomery County prosecutors urgent fees.

Cosby's attorneys stated in an announcement shortly after the brand new fees had been introduced; 'The cost by the Montgomery County District Lawyer's workplace got here as no shock, filed 12 years after the alleged incident and approaching the heels of a hotly contested election for this county's DA throughout which this case was made the point of interest.

'Make no mistake, we intend to mount a vigorous protection in opposition to this unjustified cost.'

Cosby has been out on $1million bail since December 30 when he was charged in Montgomery County.

In February he additionally sued Constand claiming she violated the phrases of their civil settlement by agreeing to cooperate within the legal probe in opposition to him. 

 

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