Los Angeles court docket denies retrial for Bill Cosby in Judy Huth sexual assault case

By ANI

WASHINGTON: A Los Angeles Superior Court choose has said that American comic and actor Bill Cosby, in his sexual assault civil case involving a minor from the Nineteen Seventies, is not going to get to re-litigate.

According to Deadline, in a September 27 ruling, Judge Craig Karlan mentioned, “Cosby has failed to establish he received an unfair trial or that insufficient evidence existed to establish his liability for Plaintiff’s harm.”

This determination denies Cosby a retrial on the decades-old claims by Judy Huth. The ruling by the LASC choose got here pretty rapidly after listening to arguments on September 23 within the Santa Monica Courthouse.

Cosby’s attorneys have sought to have Karlan overturn the June jury determination towards their shopper, based mostly totally on timeline inconsistencies in Huth’s case.

Initially, again in 2014, Huth had claimed that she was assaulted by Cosby on the age of 15 in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion.

Mere weeks earlier than the civil trial, Huth mentioned that she had a transparent reminiscence of occasions and moved the 12 months of the assault to 1975.

In a press release to Deadline, Cosby’s longtime consultant Andrew Wyatt mentioned, “Judge Karlan denying Mr Cosby a new trial was expected but it’s unfortunate that this judge ignored the inconsistencies in Ms Huth’s testimony during cross-examination and the mere fact that Ms Huth changed her timeline of events in the 11th hour before the trial.”

He added, “We have always stood our ground by saying, ‘This was a trial by assassination against Mr Cosby.’ The afterglow for Mr Cosby is that he maintains his innocence and vehemently denies all alleged allegations waged against him; but most importantly, Mr Cosby will move forward with his appeal, which will preclude any monies (USD 500,000) from being awarded to Ms Huth.”

Previously, over 50 girls have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct. The American actor was additionally convicted of sexually harassing Andrea Constand in Philadelphia because of which he was sentenced to a few years in a state jail in Pennsylvania, reported CNN.

However, on an attraction, his conviction was overturned and he was launched from jail in September 2021.

WASHINGTON: A Los Angeles Superior Court choose has said that American comic and actor Bill Cosby, in his sexual assault civil case involving a minor from the Nineteen Seventies, is not going to get to re-litigate.

According to Deadline, in a September 27 ruling, Judge Craig Karlan mentioned, “Cosby has failed to establish he received an unfair trial or that insufficient evidence existed to establish his liability for Plaintiff’s harm.”

This determination denies Cosby a retrial on the decades-old claims by Judy Huth. The ruling by the LASC choose got here pretty rapidly after listening to arguments on September 23 within the Santa Monica Courthouse.

Cosby’s attorneys have sought to have Karlan overturn the June jury determination towards their shopper, based mostly totally on timeline inconsistencies in Huth’s case.

Initially, again in 2014, Huth had claimed that she was assaulted by Cosby on the age of 15 in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion.

Mere weeks earlier than the civil trial, Huth mentioned that she had a transparent reminiscence of occasions and moved the 12 months of the assault to 1975.

In a press release to Deadline, Cosby’s longtime consultant Andrew Wyatt mentioned, “Judge Karlan denying Mr Cosby a new trial was expected but it’s unfortunate that this judge ignored the inconsistencies in Ms Huth’s testimony during cross-examination and the mere fact that Ms Huth changed her timeline of events in the 11th hour before the trial.”

He added, “We have always stood our ground by saying, ‘This was a trial by assassination against Mr Cosby.’ The afterglow for Mr Cosby is that he maintains his innocence and vehemently denies all alleged allegations waged against him; but most importantly, Mr Cosby will move forward with his appeal, which will preclude any monies (USD 500,000) from being awarded to Ms Huth.”

Previously, over 50 girls have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct. The American actor was additionally convicted of sexually harassing Andrea Constand in Philadelphia because of which he was sentenced to a few years in a state jail in Pennsylvania, reported CNN.

However, on an attraction, his conviction was overturned and he was launched from jail in September 2021.