Bill Cosby Denied Parole; Ex-“America’s Dad” Won’t Participate In Required Sexually Violent Predator Treatment
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has not decided whether Bill Cosby could leave prison or pursue a new trial on sex-crime charges, but Keystone State's parole board has made its opinion very clear.
The board stated, "After an interview with you and a review of your file, and considering all matters required by the parole board, exercising your discretion, at this time it is determined that: You must provide parole / Repayment has been denied, ”the board said. Named sexually violent predator in a letter earlier this month (read it here).
The state board cites several reasons for his decision to never refer to the 83-year-old legally blind actor as "America's father". In no small part, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections' negative recommendation did not help Cosby's cause, nor did the fact that he refused to participate in a necessary treatment program for "prevention of sex offenders and violence" is.
Cosby's refusal to join the treatment program significantly affected his expectations of further parole, the board also made it clear. Which means that he will remain closed for some time until the top court of Pennsylvania comes in his favor.
Back in September 2018, The Cosby Show producer-star was sentenced to a minimum of three years and more than 10 years in prison after being convicted in his second trial for the 2004 rape of Andrea Constand, a former University of Temple employee was.
Imprisoned at Pennsylvania's State Correctional Institution in Phoenix for nearly three years, Cosby has been fighting the sentence almost from the moment he was sentenced. Coming off short and frequent and even failing to get an early release due to coronovirus, the disgraced comedian finally won a one-of-a-kind victory in June 2020, when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a rape sentence Agreed for a hearing on his appeal.
In fact due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis in December and with Cosby absent, the 75-minute appeal hearing focused on prior testimony from five other women during the second trial, a 2005 press release from the 5th Amendment Rights and former Pennsylvania DA . Montgomery County, for better or worse.
The seven-judge PA Supreme Court has not issued an opinion on the appeal.
Cosby's representatives were not so reticent today.
"The news that actor and comedian Bill Cosby's parole has been 'denied' by the Pennsylvania State Parole Board comes as no surprise to Mr. Cosby, his family, his friends and / or his legal team," the spokesperson Andrew Wyatt said on Thursday. The decision of 11 May went public.
"It was brought to our attention by Mr. Cosby that in the past months, members of the PA State Parole Board had met him and sympathetically said, 'His parole if he does not attend SVP [sexually violent predator] courses. Hoagie can be denied, "" The objective PR boss added his long-time client. "Mr. C. Cosby has vehemently declared his innocence and continues to deny all the allegations leveled against him without any evidence. Today, Mr. Cosby hopes the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court will issue an opinion to vacate his sentence or guarantee him a new trial.
Although Cosby acknowledged in his 2005 statements that Constand had been given multiple benadryl pills a year earlier on the night of the alleged attack at his Philadelphia-area mansion, the comic had continued its 2015 arrests, various investigations, two trials, and 2018. The sentence is emphasized through the hearing. That the encounter took place by consent.
More than 60 women have claimed that Cosby had consumed non-consensual drugs for decades and attacked her with a mixture of pills and alcohol - as Constand testified that she was used to Was the strategy. Unlike many of the women, some of whom were in the audience at the two trials and sentencing hearings in the fall of 2018, Cosby gave Constand millions in a confidential settlement once more than 10 years before the criminal case was opened six years ago. Had paid. Current Montgomery County DA Kevin Steele.