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Mahoganyanais
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Username: Mahoganyanais
Post Number: 3
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 10:54 am: | 
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Maybe more to the point, what's up with his attorney? "No comment" might have been a more appropriate response to the allegations, at this point in the game.
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Police Probe Allegation Against Bill Cosby
2 hours, 22 minutes ago Entertainment - AP Gossip/Celebrity
LOS ANGELES - A female acquaintance of comedian Bill Cosby (news) has made an allegation against him that has prompted a police investigation in Pennsylvania, the entertainer's attorney said Thursday.
Attorney Walter Phillips said he spoke Thursday with authorities in Pennsylvania who told him they have begun an investigation. He would not discuss the specifics of the allegation — which he called "utterly preposterous" — but said it amounts to, at the most, "inappropriate touching."
No charges have been brought against Cosby. Phillips said the accuser, who lives in Canada, knows Cosby and the alleged incident in question happened about a year ago.
Police in Cheltenham Township, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb where Cosby has a home, declined to comment.
"I know the person making the accusation hasn't been contacted by authorities," Phillips said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from his office in Philadelphia. "We are hopeful and optimistic that no charges will be brought forward."
Dave Selby, a spokesman with the Durham Regional Police in Durham, Ontario, said police had passed on allegations from a woman there to authorities in Pennsylvania but declined to confirm whether they involved Cosby.
Cosby postponed a town hall meeting in Cleveland on Thursday and has postponed three upcoming shows in Florida, his publicist David Brokaw said. Brokaw would not say whether the postponements have anything to do with the recent allegation.
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 948
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 10:55 am: |
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I had said I wasn't going to post anything about it--then you posted and I said I wasn't going to comment on it
But I will. I'm through with it. Let it take its course through our courts if need be, be dropped if it is not and move on.
Our brother is hurt and grieving and someone should get him some help.
Peace, blessings and my prayers to the Cosby family. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 1934
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 06:32 pm: |
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Well, Bill, maybe you made one too many enemies when you outed all of those underclass people who you accused of betraying the civil rights legacy.
Have their apologists put in place a scenario that will KILL BILL?? |
Mahoganyanais
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Username: Mahoganyanais
Post Number: 18
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 08:51 am: |
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Cynique: Have their apologists put in place a scenario that will KILL BILL??
Mah: Looks doubtful. Hopefully, he'll be cleared.
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Cosby Case Doubts
Wed Jan 26, 6:35 PM ET Entertainment - E!
By Marcus Errico
A Pennsylvania prosecutor isn't saying for sure, but he let a big hint drop Wednesday, telling reporters that the yearlong delay between the time Bill Cosby (news) is accused of fondling a woman and her decision to tell authorities may damage her case.
"I think that factors such as failure to disclose in a timely manner and contacts with the alleged perpetrator after the event are factors that weigh toward Mr. Cosby," Bruce L. Castor Jr., the Montgomery County district attorney, said at a press conference.
"I won't make any decision concerning anyone's credibility until all the statements are taken and all the evidence is in."
Cosby and his accuser have been interviewed by investigators, Castor says, and his office will decide within two weeks whether to bring charges.
"I'm not going to get into what he told us," Castor said. "All I will say is that he has been cooperative, as has the [accuser]."
The 31-year-old woman, an ex-basketball player who met Cosby through her former job at Temple University--the entertainer's alma mater--claims that she and Cosby had been friends. During dinner with others at a restaurant in January 2004, she says that after complaining of stress and tension, Cosby gave her some pills that made her dizzy. Then later, at his suburban Philadelphia home, she claims he touched her breasts and placed her hand on his genitals.
The woman, who asked that her identity be kept secret, eventually quit her job at Temple and returned to her native Canada to attend massage school. She finally came forward to Canadian authorities on Jan. 13. The case was then transferred back to Pennsylvania.
Such allegations, Castor says, would likely result in a misdemeanor or low-level sexual-harassment count, if there was enough evidence to indicate criminal intent.
"We charge people for criminal conduct. We don't charge people with making a mistake or doing something foolish," Castor said.
Cosby, 67, has remained mum on the matter. After the accusations surfaced last week, the entertainer postponed several speaking engagements, but now his publicist says Cosby will stick to all upcoming appearances.
His attorney, Walter M. Phillips Jr., has called the allegations "bizarre" and questioned why the woman waited a year to go public.
In recent days, both the woman and her parents have spoken out about the long delay. "I did what I thought was right," the accuser told the Philadelphia Inquirer Wednesday. "Sometimes it takes a long time to build up the courage, especially if the person is universal and when a person is very famous," the woman's father told a television station last week.
"We're not it in for the money," the father told the Toronto Sun over the weekend. "Justice has to be served."
The father also admitted to the Sun that his daughter introduced him and his wife to Cosby eight months after the alleged incident took place.
Cosby has been married to wife Camille for 41 years. In 1997, he did cop to CBS' Dan Rather to once having an affair in the 1970s but said had been faithful to Camille since then.
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