Posted on 06/17/2017 4:08:31 AM PDT by SkyPilot
The delicate issue of race has percolated beneath the surface of the Bill Cosby jury selection process, present but unspoken, ever since 100 citizens filed into a grand old downtown courthouse here early Monday morning.
It was impossible to miss that nearly half the black potential jurors settled into the same row together at the back of a large courtroom where the pool first met. Once individual questioning began, prosecutors used their first of seven possible strikes to block a black juror from being seated.
But on Tuesday, the issue of race was catapulted to the center of the trial. Defense attorneys sharply accused the Montgomery County, Pa., District Attorney’s office of engaging in the “systematic exclusion of African Americans” from the jury, an explosive charge that prosecutors vigorously disputed and that the judge in the case ultimately rejected.
The late-afternoon showdown over race underscored one of the more complex challenges in the early stages of a case in which every detail, every nuance, every fact is under intense scrutiny. Court officials here have spent two full days trying to select 12 jurors and six alternates, but they left Tuesday night having seated just 11: seven white men, three white women and one black woman.
Cosby injected race into the case even before jury selection began. In a radio interview, days before the trial started, the 79-year-old entertainer blamed racism for the scandal that has seen him accused of sexual misdeeds by 60 women over five decades and criminally charged for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting a woman who worked for Temple University. The alleged victim, Andrea Constand, is white — a fact noted by the judge during arguments over seating black jurors. (Cosby has denied ever sexually assaulting women.)
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You don’t believe he drugged and raped them?
Because you say so? Grow up child!
I tend to think they’re lying.....not that something didn’t take place but that they didn’t have the sense to not get in those situations in the first place. Good grief the woman willingly got in his bed....did she think she was just their for a sleep over PJ party! Give me a break.........
They might be. It took them all decades to come out of the woodwork for sure which doesn’t help their case.
Still, there’s a lot of allegations with the same tune. I’m also not a juror - like everybody else here, so the “evidence” I have is from the FAKE NEWS media anyways.
I hate rape, and if Cosby is a rapist he needs to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Because you are a-hole.
Ah the typical response from a brain dead sub-zero IQ.
Exactly what I’d expect. LOL!
I apologize, but I was unable to follow your post. Perhaps it is the ravages of senility, but I don’t even know what a CPT is or why your remarks refute mine.
He blamed American racism for his son being murdered by an immigrant decades ago. He plays the race card whenever he wants to. Since the media sees nothing wrong or noteworthy about it, they don’t generally notice it very often.
You’re brain should be dead
You act like your a five year old child and a troll.
Maybe you are a sleeper troll?
I think the civil suit was in 2005. I don’t know about statue of limitations, although she did report it to authorities a year after it happened so maybe that negates the timeline other than a “speedy trial”.
I have seen a lot of people pile on when there is money in it, or crazy liberals that hate men and want to strike a blow for solidarity. My position is it’s sad, we don’t know and I’m glad we have a court system.
I also think its very suspicious when a sexual encounter is called rape years after without having been reported at the time.
Stupidest comment of the Day!
“I also think its very suspicious when a sexual encounter is called rape years after without having been reported at the time.”
That’s very logical and I point that out in a previous post. That said, I find it laughable that a lot of goons here defend this guy after he’s played the race card several times in the past decades and is a libtard to the core.
Either way, the truth will come out eventually. It always does.
of course its racism...and of course black women would never let a black man be convicted for harming a white women...such is the hate...
Ugh
So sick to death of his ugly face, and his putrid soul.
No matter what the outcome, he’s exposed now and will NEVER fool America again.
The snake was beloved, all the while hating HATING and now he might skate, but he’ll never hide.
nice...
sharia law..
wow...what a putdown....how arrogant to think you are so special...
I’ll just put this out there, an old saying I remember well.
If you’re Guilty get a Jury, if you’re Innocent get a Judge*.
*Unless you are a Republican and the Judge is a Democrat.
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