Posted on 02/03/2016 4:45:08 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Norristown, Pennsylvania (CNN)—Former Pennsylvania prosecutor Bruce Castor may not want a judge to throw out recent sexual assault charges against Bill Cosby. But he conceded Tuesday he thought he barred the commonwealth from prosecuting the case 11 years ago.
Bruce Castor, a former Montgomery County district attorney, testified in a pretrial hearing in Norristown, where attorneys for the entertainer are asking a judge to drop recent charges accusing Cosby of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in 2004.
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When Castor declined to prosecute in 2005, he said, Cosby couldn't claim Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination in the civil suit.
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He walks on this one.
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Makes sense from a legal point of view.
It does? How can one victim make a deal that takes away the rights of others? Can this be solved by going to another court or does the case have to stay in that jurisdiction?
I'm probably much too lenient about sins in the past than most people are. The culture was different and pre-AIDS there was a leniency toward sexual encounters. Anything Crosby did with minors back then was a crime, of course, but one has to wonder how much it got passed over by "live and let live".
But some of the more recent cases, and the decades over which the misdeeds stretch. The guy is scum. Getting off because of one judge's bad decision is not what justice is supposed to be about.
In 2002 he got a sweetheart deal in Philly because he’s their “homeboy” ,, shouldn’t stop suits in other states.
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