After Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction was overturned by Pennsylvania's Supreme Court last summer, an appeal to review the case has now been rejected, upholding the court's decision to let the disgraced comedian remain a free man.
As per Deadline, Pennsylvania prosecutors filed a petition to review the case, arguing that "the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's expansion of the Due Process Clause goes far beyond anything contemplated by this Court." Cosby's legal team called the petition "a pathetic last-ditch effort that will not prevail."
The Supreme Court judges — whose nine members, as the Associated Press points out, include two men accused of sexual misconduct themselves — ruled on the decision to reject the appeal without comment.
Cosby spokesperson Andrew Wyatt said of the decision: "This is truly a victory for Mr. Cosby, but it shows that cheating will never get you far in life, and the corruption that lies within Montgomery County District's Attorney Office has been brought to the centre stage of the world."
Cosby had been found guilty in 2018 of drugging and molesting ex-basketball player Andrea Constand back in 2004. He was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison, but he was released in June 2021 after Supreme Court judges found that testimony from accusers unrelated to the case had led the trial against Cosby to be tainted.
The sentence was overturned after Cosby had served just over two years of his sentence. He will not be retried.
As per Deadline, Pennsylvania prosecutors filed a petition to review the case, arguing that "the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's expansion of the Due Process Clause goes far beyond anything contemplated by this Court." Cosby's legal team called the petition "a pathetic last-ditch effort that will not prevail."
The Supreme Court judges — whose nine members, as the Associated Press points out, include two men accused of sexual misconduct themselves — ruled on the decision to reject the appeal without comment.
Cosby spokesperson Andrew Wyatt said of the decision: "This is truly a victory for Mr. Cosby, but it shows that cheating will never get you far in life, and the corruption that lies within Montgomery County District's Attorney Office has been brought to the centre stage of the world."
Cosby had been found guilty in 2018 of drugging and molesting ex-basketball player Andrea Constand back in 2004. He was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison, but he was released in June 2021 after Supreme Court judges found that testimony from accusers unrelated to the case had led the trial against Cosby to be tainted.
The sentence was overturned after Cosby had served just over two years of his sentence. He will not be retried.
