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Bill Cosby Released From Prison, Sex Assault Conviction Overturned

Bill Cosby Released From Prison, Sex Assault Conviction Overturned

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.

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