Moments after a judge ordered Bill Cosby to serve a minimum of three years in state prison for a sexual assault, the former TV sitcom star burst into laughter in the courtroom. Page Six reports that Cosby was seen joking and laughing with his legal team after Judge Steven O’Neill sentenced him to 3 to 10 …
A judge who sentenced Bill Cosby to 3 to 10 years in state prison has denied him bail, meaning that Cosby will head straight to jail following Tuesday’s sentencing hearing. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Montgomery County Judge Stephen O’Neill handed down the multi-year sentence following Cosby’s April conviction for drugging and molesting Andrea Constand in …
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby’s sentencing hearing opened Monday with a debate over whether the 81-year-old comedian should be branded a “sexually violent predator” — a scarlet letter that would make him subject to mandatory lifetime counseling and community notification of his whereabouts. Cosby, who faces up to 30 years in prison for drugging …
By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Days before sentencing, Bill Cosby’s trial judge denied a defense motion to step down from the sex assault case because of what Cosby’s team called a long-ago grudge with a pretrial witness. Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill has seen the case through two trials, hard-fought pretrial hearings and 15 defense lawyers …
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby will be sentenced Sept. 24 — five months after he was convicted of sexual assault. Judge Steven O’Neill set the date on Tuesday. Cosby’s lawyers had asked to delay sentencing until December. Cosby turns 81 in July and is likely to face a sentence of up to 10 years in …
