Phylicia Rashad has a new statement about Bill Cosby‘s release from prison.
Earlier this afternoon, the 73-year-old actress, who starred with Bill in the long running The Cosby Show as his on-screen wife, reacted to the news he had been released following his sexual assault conviction being overturned.
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Bill Cosby is back at home.
The 83-year-old comedian returned to his Pennsylvania mansion following the overturning of his sexual assault conviction on Wednesday (June 30) by the state’s Supreme Court.
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Bill Cosby is walking free again.
As previously reported, the 83-year-old comedian’s sex assault conviction was overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and he was just released from prison, Variety reported Wednesday (June 30).
The court ruled that an agreement he made with former prosecutor Bruce Castor in 2005 should have prevented him from being charged again.
“The collective weight of these considerations led D.A. Castor to conclude that, unless Cosby confessed, there was insufficient credible and admissible evidence upon which any charge against Mr. Cosby related to the Constand incident could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt,’” the decision reads.
He was then released from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections hours after the decision handed down by the court.
He was originally charged in 2015, and convicted in 2018, and sentenced to three to ten years for the raping of Andrea Constand at his Philadelphia home in 2004.
He served more than two years of his sentence at a state prison near Philadelphia.
He previously settled a lawsuit with Andrea Constand in 2006 for what was revealed to be nearly $3.4 million.
In later years, dozens of women came forward with allegations of the comedian drugging and raping them.
Phylicia Rashad is currently getting a ton of backlash for her reaction tot he news.
Phylicia Rashad must have known she was going to get a lot of backlash when tweeting this statement.
The 73-year-old actress, who played Cosby’s sitcom wife, Clair Huxtable, for all eight seasons of The Cosby Show, sent out a tweet after news broke that he would be released from prison following his sexual assault conviction being overturned.
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Pennsylvania’s highest court has agreed to let Bill Cosby walk free, overturning his sexual assault conviction on Wednesday (June 30).
In late 2015, Cosby, 83, was arrested and charged for the sexual assault and drugging of Andrea Constand. He eventually was sentenced to 3-10 years, and vowed to spend 10 years in prison versus express remorse. He had served two years thus far.
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Bill Cosby is not getting out of prison yet.
The 83-year-old actor, who is serving three to ten years in Pennsylvania state prison after being convicted of sexual assault in 2018, has been denied parole nearly three years into his sentence, USA Today reported.
The request was denied earlier in May, and there is a reason why.
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Bill Cosby has won an appeal by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The disgraced 82-year-old actor was convicted in 2018 of rape and assault and is currently serving a 3 to 10 year sentence.
Now, the state Supreme Court said it will allow an appeal of his conviction and raised the possibility of his sentence being overturned.
A spokesman for Bill, Andrew Wyatt, says that he is “extremely thankful” for the ruling.
“As we have all stated, the false conviction of Bill Cosby is so much bigger than him — it’s about the destruction of ALL Black people and people of color in America,” he added. “We’re extremely thankful to our attorneys for their tenacious efforts in fighting for the vindication of Mr. Cosby.”
The court added in their statement of the decision, “The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has narrowed the issues on appeal, limiting them to prior bad acts and the sovereign edict. We look forward to briefing and arguing these issues and remain confident in the Trial Court and Superior Court’s previous decisions.”
Just last year, Bill gave an exclusive interview from prison, which he said was his “penthouse”.
