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                       Friday 9 June 2017
                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
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