Bill Cosby’s sight impairment will impede his ability to receive a fair trial, according to the comedian’s defence team who are calling for a dismissal for the sexual assault charges against him.
“We can’t test his memory, because he can’t see,” his attorney, Angela Agrusa, said, noting that the condition would hamper Cosby’s ability to counter evidence against him.
Bill Cosby being led into court in September. PHOTO: Getty
Despite about 60 women coming forward in the past two years accusing the 79-year-old of sexual assault, many are too long ago putting them beyond the statute of limitations.
But Angela Constand has alleged the entertainer assaulter her at his Pennsylvania home in 2004, leading to him being charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault.
The LA Times reports that Cosby’s lawyers argue that the case is only being brought now because of politics as the Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele ran and won last year on a prosecute-Cosby platform.
The judge questioned the defence on the blindness issue. “You’re saying because he doesn’t have sight he doesn’t have memory,” the judge said. “That’s a big leap.”
The prosecution doesn’t even believe Cosby is that blind.
With the cast of the Cosby Show in the 1980s. PHOTO: Getty
Prosecutors reopened Cosby’s case last year after portions of his deposition from a lawsuit brought by Constand a decade ago were made public. In them, Cosby acknowledged a series of extramarital affairs and said he had obtained quaaludes in the 1970s to give to women he wanted to have sex with.
