Jury may soon hear from Cosby, even if he doesn’t take stand

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A jury that heard seven hours of testimony  from a woman who says Bill Cosby drugged and assaulted her may soon hear  from Cosby himself — even if he doesn’t take the stand.

Prosecutors are expected to show jurors an earlier deposition in  which Cosby said that he routinely gave women pills and alcohol before sexual encounters and gave at least one of them quaaludes, a now-banned  sedative.

The suburban Philadelphia jury on Wednesday heard trial accuser  Andrea Constand offer her most direct denial yet that any of their  earlier meetings were romantic.

“It wasn’t a romantic time, no,” Constand, 44, of Toronto, said of an  earlier fireside dinner with Cosby, a trustee at Temple University,  where she directed the women’s basketball team.

The jury also heard Cosby’s voice on a 2006 telephone call, offering  Constand money for graduate school after her mother called to confront him about the encounter at his home a year earlier.

Full story: AP News


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