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Cosby Walks Free
Bill Cosby is a free man today, and cannot be prosecuted again in Pennsylvania for the same crime. That does not mean he is on track to career or reputational rehabilitation. Far from it; the Pennsylvania Supreme Court opinion that freed him from prison repeated the truly ugly facts of his admissions in the civil case, which admissions now free him from prison. Whisky Tango Foxtrot?* Here, let the judge explain in plain language [footnotes converted to endnotes, emphasis added]:
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Appellee v. WILLIAM HENRY COSBY JR., Appellant
OPINION JUSTICE WECHT DECIDED: June 30, 2021