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Monday 12 June 2017

Will he or won’t he? Cosby could take stand at sex trial

corroborating evidence in he’d be to control. His an-
the form of her 1996 work- swers, like his comedy rou-
ers’ compensation claim tines, meander from point
against the talent agency. to point and veer toward
A lawyer who worked on stream of consciousness.
the case recalled her ac- Asked to describe what
count of being drugged he called an earlier “ro-
and sexually assaulted by mantic” encounter with
Cosby and had notes to Constand, he said, “The
back up his memory. action is my hand on her
The defense seized on a midriff, which is skin. I’m not
glaring discrepancy in lifting any clothing up. This
the account. The lawyer’s is, I don’t remember fully
notes say the encounter what it is, but it’s there and
occurred in 1990, while I can feel.”“I don’t hear
Johnson insists it was 1996, her say anything,” he con-
the year she left work and tinued. “And I don’t feel
filed the claim. her say anything. And so I
The defense had more continue, and I go into the
trouble trying to discredit area that is somewhere
Constand, a former Tem- between permission and
ple University employee. It rejection.”And the lan-
hammered home the point guage he uses to describe
Bill Cosby walks from the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial in Nor- that she was initially unsure his sexual encounters with
ristown, Pa., Friday, June 9, 2017. what month the encounter various young women
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke) took place and had regu- can be jarring. He talks in
lar phone contact with the deposition of “the pe-
By MARYCLAIRE DALE the risk would be consider- Constand says Cosby Cosby afterward. Howev- nile entrance” and “digi-
MICHAEL R. SISAK able. drugged and molested er, Constand proved un- tal penetration.” He told
Associated Press “He could be a fantastic her, which he denies. Cos- flappable, explaining that Constand’s mother, when
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — witness. ... He’s an actor, by, who’s 79, could face she had to return calls from she called to confront him,
Jurors at Bill Cosby’s sexual- and he’s a very good ac- decades in prison if con- Cosby, a university trustee, that Constand had had an
assault trial have heard ac- tor,” Duquesne University victed.If Cosby testifies and because he was an im- orgasm. And he might give
cuser Andrea Constand’s School of Law professor denies drugging and mo- portant booster and she off hints of arrogance.
side of the story and have Wes Oliver said. “(But) he lesting Constand or anyone worked for the women’s “One of the greatest story-
heard Cosby’s version in is potentially opening the else, the judge might allow basketball team. tellers in the world, and I’m
the form of his police state- door to a whole lot of cross- more people to testify as Constand left Temple failing,” Cosby said when
ment and his lurid deposi- examination that they rebuttal witnesses. when the season ended asked to repeat an answer
tion in her 2005 lawsuit, but fought really hard to keep “It would be very bad for in March 2004 and filed a in the deposition.
they don’t know if they’ll out.” him for the jury to even be- police complaint in Janu- The defense could call
hear from him in person Prosecutors wanted 13 oth- gin to think about the other ary 2005 after moving other witnesses to try to
when his defense starts er accusers to testify, but women,” Oliver said. back home to the Toronto bolster its argument that
Monday. the judge allowed just one, Not surprisingly in a “he area. She sued Cosby in Cosby had a consensual
Cosby’s spokesman says an assistant to Cosby’s said, she said” case, the March 2005 when the local relationship with Constand,
maybe. His lawyers are agent at the William Mor- defense’s main goal has prosecutor decided not to 35 years his junior. It has
staying mum. ris Agency. That meant the been to attack the cred- charge him. stressed that Constand
Experts say the “Cosby prosecution rested its case ibility of Constand and the Cosby’s four days of testi- went to his house several
Show” actor and storyteller Friday, just five days after William Morris assistant, mony in her civil case show times, went to New York
could charm the jury but the trial started. Kelly Johnson. Johnson had just how hard a witness and Connecticut to have
dinner with him and others
Authorities: and spent about 15 min-
utes alone with him on a
Off-duty border agent found assaulted near road hotel bed.

Cosby, who built a whole-
DEMING, N.M. (AP) — A Bor- found alongside a road. suffered “multiple, serious Customs and Border Pro- some reputation as a fam-
der Patrol agent assigned U.S. Customs and Border injuries” to his head, chest tection says it’s working ily man during his 50-year
to the Deming, New Mexi- Protection said in a news re- and hands. with the FBI, the Dona Ana career in entertainment
co, border patrol station is lease that a motorist found Emergency responders County Sheriff’s Office, and and was called America’s
recovering after authorities the agent on the side of a transported him to a hos- the El Paso, Texas, Police Dad, told police he held
say he was assaulted while road late Friday. pital where he’s listed in Department in the ongoing her in his arms that night
he was off-duty and was The release said the agent stable condition. investigation.q but did not kiss her. q