BILL COSBY ORDERED TO STAND TRIAL IN SEX-ASSAULT CASE
May 24, 2016
By Bob Komsic
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Comedian Bill Cosby will stand trial on charges he sexually assaulted a Toronto woman at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004.
A U.S. district judge has ruled at Cosby’s preliminary hearing that prosecutors had sufficient evidence to bring the 78-year-old Cosby to trial.
His arraignment is set for July 20, at which time he’ll enter a plea and a trial date will be sect.
If convicted Cosby could get 10 years.
His accuser is Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, who’s now a massage therapist in Toronto.
Prosecutors reopened the case last year after dozens of women made similar allegations and after Cosby’s sealed deposition in Constand’s lawsuit was made public.
Cosby has not entered a plea since his December 30 arrest.