Image: UPI/PA Images Image: UPI/PA Images US COMEDIAN BILL Cosby, who is serving a three and a half year jail term, has lost his appeal against his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago.
It was the first celebrity trial and first guilty verdict for sexual assault since the advent of the #MeToo movement. Although more than 60 women charged that they had been victims of sexual assault by Cosby, he was tried criminally only for Constand’s assault, since the statute of limitations had expired in the other cases.
The women’s evidence “tended to undermine any claim that appellant was unaware of or mistaken about victim’s failure to consent to the sexual contact,” the ruling said.
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