Cosby seeking defense lawyer for Pennsylvania criminal probe
Source: Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Comedian Bill Cosby is seeking to hire a criminal defense lawyer as suburban prosecutors revisit a 2005 sexual-assault complaint against him.
Lawyer Edwin Jacobs said late Tuesday that Cosby's agents had contacted him in the past few days about a pending investigation in Montgomery County. Jacobs, who had represented Cosby in a review of another accuser's complaint in New Jersey, said he referred Cosby's agents to another high-profile Philadelphia-area lawyer.
That other lawyer did not return message seeking comment late Tuesday. The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported Tuesday on Jacobs' involvement in the case.
Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman wouldn't confirm her office is reinvestigating the complaint by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand. However, she said in a recent statement "prosecutors have a responsibility to review past conclusions ... when current information might lead to a different decision."
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/69893dc043d5478aa6fde81660a6924c/cosby-seeking-defense-lawyer-pennsylvania-criminal-probe
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(5,751 posts)Lychee2
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Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)brush
(53,968 posts)looking to hire a criminal attorney means he knows he's near the end.
This is reminiscent to me of what happened to OJ Simpson in Nevada. Once he was caught up in the criminal justice system he going to jail no matter at all if the circumstances had anything to do with the original murder case where he was found not guilty. They were going to convict him.
Same with this case, the authorities are going to find something to send him to jail for.
You can bet on it.
Lychee2
(405 posts)That helped the authorities "get him." You make it sound like a frame-up.
brush
(53,968 posts)once they got him in the criminal justice system, sort of making up for him not getting convicted before.
But that wasn't my real point.
Reopening the 2005 Cosby case signals they are looking to find something to convict him on because of all the societal uproar from all the women coming forward, and they'll come up with something.
Cosby should be getting his affairs in order because he's going to jail.