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Cosby’s lurid decade-old testimony is read to the jury
sum, and his deposition tablets of the cold and al-
was sealed for years, until lergy medicine Benadryl
a judge released parts in before the “petting” be-
2015 at the request of The gan.
Associated Press. Prosecutors have suggest-
A portion of it was read ed he drugged her with
aloud by a detective Thurs- something stronger, per-
day afternoon, with more haps the quaaludes he ad-
expected on Friday, includ- mitted obtaining decades
ing Cosby talking about ago.It was the unsealing of
giving quaaludes and al- the deposition that spurred
cohol to women he want- Pennsylvania prosecutors
ed to have sex with. to reopen their investiga-
Cosby, 79, could spend tion and let loose a flood
the rest of his life in prison if of similar allegations from
convicted of drugging and dozens of women that all
molesting Constand, a for- but destroyed his nice-guy
mer employee of Temple image from “The Cosby
University’s women’s bas- Show” as America’s Dad.
ketball program. He has Prosecutors on Thursday
said the sexual encounter also read into the record
was consensual. Cosby’s 2005 statement to
Constand, 44, testified this
Actor Bill Cosby walks out of the courtroom during a break in his sexual assault trial at the Mont- week that Cosby pen- police, in which he gave a
gomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Thursday, June 8, 2017. etrated her with his fingers similar account of the night
(Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Pool Photo via AP) against her will after giv- in question, saying he gave
By MARYCLAIRE DALE about giving pills to Andrea continue and I go into the ing her pills that left her so Constand the Benadryl to
MICHAEL R. SISAK Constand and then reach- area that is somewhere be- limp that she was unable to help her relax.
Associated Press ing into her pants. tween permission and re- push him away or tell him to Also Thursday, a detective
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Jurors sat riveted and took jection.” stop. testified that Bruce Cas-
The jury at Bill Cosby’s sex- notes as they heard the TV “I am not stopped,” he Cosby, who said recently tor, the district attorney
ual assault trial heard from star say that as he touched said. that he did not intend to who decided more than a
the comedian without him Constand’s body at his sub- Cosby testified in 2005 as testify at his trial, showed decade ago not to bring
actually taking the stand urban Philadelphia home in part of a lawsuit brought little reaction as the deposi- charges against Cosby,
Thursday as prosecutors 2004, “I don’t hear her say against him by Constand. tion was read. shut the investigation down
read into the record his lu- anything. And I don’t feel He eventually settled the In his testimony, he said he in 2005 while police were
rid, decade-old testimony her say anything. And so I case for an undisclosed gave Constand three half- still working the case. q
‘Serial’ star, guilty of killing girlfriend, seeks new trial
counsel when she failed to so important is that there is
cross-examine the state’s no more powerful defense
cell tower expert about the than an alibi.”
reliability of location data Judges on the panel re-
that placed Syed near the peatedly asked about the
burial site.He also contends lack of following up with
Gutierrez failed to pursue Chapman. Thiru Vignara-
an alibi for his client by call- jah, special assistant attor-
ing Asia Chapman to the ney general arguing on be-
witness stand. Chapman half of the state, said it was
said she saw Syed at the li- reasonable not to seek out
brary in the town of Wood- Chapman, because it was
lawn, Maryland, around “a deviation” from an alibi
the same time prosecutors Gutierrez was seeking.
say Lee was killed and that “Evaluating a decision not
Syed couldn’t be the killer. to contact a particular wit-
“I haven’t seen a single ness isn’t just about making
case in which an attorney that call,” Vignarajah said.
failed to contact an alibi “It’s about making that call
witness in which deficiency versus the strategy that she
was not found,” Brown told was pursuing. We know
the Maryland Court of Spe- from the record that Ms.
In this Feb. 3, 2016 photo, Adnan Syed enters Courthouse East in Baltimore prior to a hearing in cial Appeals, the state’s Gutierrez and her defense
Baltimore. Attorneys for Syed, convicted of killing his high school sweetheart, and whose story is intermediate appellate team were very focused
at the center of the popular podcast “Serial,” argued Thursday, June 8, 2017 that he deserves a court. Brown also told the on developing an alibi.”
new trial after his conviction was vacated. judges there is a duty to in- He said she was focused
(Barbara Haddock Taylor/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
vestigate an alibi. on an alibi placing him at
By BRIAN WITTE sweetheart, and whose trial. “This is an alibi witness who the school, not the library.
Associated Press story is at the center of the C. Justin Brown argued is providing their phone “It’s the kind of thing that
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — An popular podcast “Serial,” that his client’s trial attor- number and their willing- the defense attorney would
attorney for a man convict- argued Thursday that Ad- ney, the late Cristina Guti- ness to testify, and the rea- have to make a judgment
ed of killing his high school nan Syed deserves a new errez, provided ineffective son, the reason that this is about,” he said. q