The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case filed by Pennsylvania prosecutors seeking to reinstate comedian Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction.
Prosecutors asked the Supreme Court in November to review the Pennsylvania high court ruling granting freedom to Cosby, arguing the reasoning for his release could set a dangerous precedent. In response, attorneys for Cosby asked the high court to deny the bid by prosecutors to revive his criminal sexual assault case in February.
The decision by the high court on Monday leaves intact a 4-3 ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which held the evidence used in Cosby’s 2018 violated his due process rights due to a nonprosecution agreement made with a previous prosecutor, Bruce Castor.
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The district attorney for Montgomery County appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing the nonprosecution agreement should not carry the legal equivalent of “immunity” and that the “decision as it stands will have far-reaching negative consequences.”
Cosby, 84, spent three years in prison before he was released on June 30 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated his sentence, which was initially set for 10 years.
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The actor, eponymous star of The Cosby Show from 1984-1992 who had been known as “America’s dad,” was charged in late 2015 with sexual assault just before the statute of limitations was set to expire.
