Bill Cosby Blames #MeToo ‘Hysteria’ For His Incarceration

Bill Cosby won’t go down without a fight. BET reports that the former comedian, who was once a legend in the entertainment industry, is now trying to take his case to the Supreme Court in Pennsylvania.

Bill is serving a 3-10-year prison sentence at the moment for allegedly drugging and assaulting Andrea Constand, who was the basketball coach at Temple University back in 2004. On his IG account, on agent on Bill’s behalf released a statement in which his team blamed the “hysteria” surrounding the #MeToo movement for his conviction and subsequent incarceration.

You can check out his Instagram post below:

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For Immediate Release – Official Statement: Today, Mr. Cosby’s legal team filed a Petition in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania asking the high court to review his case to consider the vital important questions about the impact of #metoo hysteria on the bedrock principles of our criminal justice system. The lower courts stripped Mr. Cosby of his most sacred constitutional guarantees of Due Process and the presumption of innocence when they permitted the jury to hear, and base its verdict on, decades-old, unproven allegations of multiple women. The trial court’s overriding concern should have been to ensure a fair proceeding on the single charged offense for which Mr. Cosby was standing trial – not to provide a platform to any and all accusers who belatedly wanted their day in court. We are hopeful that the state Supreme Court will recognize the long-lasting implications of allowing the court of public opinion to override our cherished constitutional principles and act to rectify this injustice. #FreeBillCosby #FarFromFinished #DueProcess #JusticeForAll #PASupremeCourt #BillCosby

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Reportedly, Bill and his legal team will try and take the case to the Supreme Court for them to review how the cultural circumstances of the #MeToo movement may have negatively impacted how the justice system functioned in his particular case.

The Instagram letter explained one crucial detail of the case: the fact that women were allowed to air their sexual assault allegations in court, despite many of them being decades-old and never proven. The statement claims Bill was stripped of his Due Process rights in addition to the presumption of innocence – both essential rights of US citizens.

You can check out the Instagram post below:

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For Immediate Release – Official Statement: Today, Mr. Cosby’s legal team filed a Petition in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania asking the high court to review his case to consider the vital important questions about the impact of #metoo hysteria on the bedrock principles of our criminal justice system. The lower courts stripped Mr. Cosby of his most sacred constitutional guarantees of Due Process and the presumption of innocence when they permitted the jury to hear, and base its verdict on, decades-old, unproven allegations of multiple women. The trial court’s overriding concern should have been to ensure a fair proceeding on the single charged offense for which Mr. Cosby was standing trial – not to provide a platform to any and all accusers who belatedly wanted their day in court. We are hopeful that the state Supreme Court will recognize the long-lasting implications of allowing the court of public opinion to override our cherished constitutional principles and act to rectify this injustice. #FreeBillCosby #FarFromFinished #DueProcess #JusticeForAll #PASupremeCourt #BillCosby

A post shared by Bill Cosby (@billcosby) on Jan 9, 2020 at 3:18pm PST

It was argued by Bill and his legal team that the jury never should’ve heard the stories of other women, considering it wasn’t directly related to the case at hand.

As followers of the case know, the 82-year-old stand-up comic has been accused of sexual harassment, rape, and assault, by a plethora of women over the last 5 years. Previously, Bill said that when he comes up for parole, they would never hear him say he had remorse.

Bill Cosby’s reputation was first called into question on a grand scale back in 2014 when a stand-up skit from Hannibal Burress went viral on YouTube. In the past, Bill once came under fire for telling young black-Americans to pull up their pants, which Hannibal referenced in his routine. Buress pointed out the hypocrisy of such criticism.

source https://celebrityinsider.org/bill-cosby-blames-metoo-hysteria-for-his-incarceration-358800/