Rape allegations mount against Bill Cosby #3

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/n...alf-cosby-accuser-ok-d-sandoval-expected-sign

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Senate gave final legislative approval Sunday to a bill extending the statute of limitations for sexual assault cases from four to 20 years.

Senators voted 21-0 to approve Assembly Bill 212, which received unanimous support in the Assembly too. The measure goes to Gov. Brian Sandoval, who is expected to sign it

Assemblywoman Irene Bustamante Adams, D-Las Vegas, sponsored the bill on behalf of a constituent, Lise-Lotte Lublin, who alleged that comedian and entertainer Bill Cosby drugged her in 1989 at a suite at the Las Vegas Hilton.
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IzzyBlanche said:
Don't forget, a serial sexual predator who dropped out of high school.

Quite the ideal spokesperson to advocate education to high school students. :rolleyes: :facepalm:
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How to tell that you've failed in the parenting job:

A serial sexual predator who dropped out of high school is the only person who can motivate your kids to study.

A longish discussion about the interview:

http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/bill-cosby-denial/55550ec32b8c2ab00000016e

Very interesting, please do watch :)
 
http://www.selmatimesjournal.com/20...selma-high-marches-over-edmund-pettus-bridge/

An article about the march over the bridge.

“As always, if it is about education I would like to be able to touch the untouchables … the dreamers who really can’t see far and to erase some of the things that they think about that which is too hard and having more fun doing nothing and paying for things later,” Cosby said. “I am trying to motivate in that sense.”

Read more: http://www.selmatimesjournal.com/20...ches-over-edmund-pettus-bridge/#ixzz3abKFnWm6

he likes to touch the untouchables... with their consent I hope :p
 
Donjeta said:
How to tell that you've failed in the parenting job:

A serial sexual predator who dropped out of high school is the only person who can motivate your kids to study.

A longish discussion about the interview:

http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/bill-cosby-denial/55550ec32b8c2ab00000016e

Very interesting, please do watch :)
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I, for one, did. Thanks wasn't enough. Very impressive commentary.

I don't think I've ever seen a defense lawyer in a similar discussion coming up so empty regarding defense options for the accused.

Just remember, "reality is the situation." I think we have a new bumper sticker phrase. :lol:
 
Donjeta said:
http://www.selmatimesjournal.com/20...selma-high-marches-over-edmund-pettus-bridge/

An article about the march over the bridge.

“As always, if it is about education I would like to be able to touch the untouchables … the dreamers who really can’t see far and to erase some of the things that they think about that which is too hard and having more fun doing nothing and paying for things later,” Cosby said. “I am trying to motivate in that sense.”

Read more: http://www.selmatimesjournal.com/20...ches-over-edmund-pettus-bridge/#ixzz3abKFnWm6

he likes to touch the untouchables... with their consent I hope :p
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Too bad BC has lost touch with all that is moral, and with the ideals of dreamers.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

Dr. King, who earned his doctorate from Boston University in 1955, did not put down those who needed his help. Rather, he lifted them up. He wanted them to have dreams, to be dreamers, to see the possibilities for their lives. Most artists dream, and find ways of fulfilling those dreams. Dreaming does not equal laziness and ineptitude and a lack of motivation, IMHO. In those dreams, people can find hope and the strength to struggle against the odds to bring their dreams to fruition. In Martin Luther King's dreams, many found comfort, the promise of happiness and the beginnings of their own life's worth.

Somehow, I doubt that many will find anything like that in Cosby's words.
 

Model Janice Dickinson sues Bill Cosby for defamation
Associated Press By ANTHONY McCARTNEY
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Model Janice Dickinson sued Bill Cosby for defamation on Wednesday over denials made by the comedian's representatives after she accused him last year of raping her in 1982.

Dickinson's lawsuit seeks unspecified damages on defamation, false light and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims. The suit states Dickinson has been re-victimized and her reputation has suffered because of pointed denials by Cosby's attorney that the comedian drugged and raped her in a Lake Tahoe, California, hotel room more than 30 years ago.
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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/model-janice-dickinson-sues-bill-cosby-defamation-235615158.html
 
The lawyer discussed this in the huffpost discussion linked above. He said that Cosby's public statements (as to how much he can defend himself) are restrained by the risk that if he says they're lying they can then sue for defamation and then he'll have to be deposed, and he can use his fifth amendment rights not to say anything but then in a civil case it will look bad for him.

Maybe that's what got him to publish the statement saying that he did not intend to say Constand was a liar earlier...her lawyers threatened to sue and there might be something weighing heavily on their side in the sealed evidence from the earlier settled case.

He can afford to pay but I don't think he wants to be deposed. If he rambles incoherently in a deposition like he rambles in his interviews it might not be too good.

Deadline has a link to the legal document
http://deadline.com/2015/05/bill-co...ion-rape-allegations-marty-singer-1201430792/




"Calling Dickinson a liar is a defamatory statement under the law ... and that's the mistake Bill Cosby made," Bloom said.

"It was too late to for her to sue for rape or for drugging, but once he through his representatives called her a liar she had a fresh claim for defamation and that's the lawsuit that we filed today."

Bloom said they asked Cosby to retract his claim that she lied, but he refused.

She said Cosby's team has 30 days to respond to their lawsuit and they plan to seek his deposition "as early as possible."

Cosby's lawyers could not be reached Wednesday for response to Dickinson's lawsuit.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/20/us/bill-cosby-sued-by-dickinson/



Daily Mail reprinted the lawyer statement that she's referring to:

Janice Dickinson's story accusing Bill Cosby of rape is a lie. There is a glaring contradiction between what she is claiming now for the first time and what she wrote in her own book and what she told the media back in 2002. Ms. Dickinson did an interview with the New York Observer in September 2002 entitled 'Interview With a Vamp' completely contradicting her new story about Mr. Cosby. That interview a dozen years ago said 'she didn't want to go to bed with him and he blew her off.' Her publisher Harper Collins can confirm that no attorney representing Mr. Cosby tried to kill the alleged rape story (since there was no such story) or tried to prevent her from saying whatever she wanted about Bill Cosby in her book. The only story she gave 12 years ago to the media and in her autobiography was that she refused to sleep with Mr. Cosby and he blew her off. Documentary proof and Ms. Dickinson's own words show that her new story about something she now claims happened back in 1982 is a fabricated lie.
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I wonder what the lawyers thought about defamation lawsuits at the time they posted this.

The legal document states that at the time she wrote the book she told about the rape to her ghost writer and publisher who both told her that they can't disclose it in the book. I'm assuming they will be called to testify to that effect. Also there is a reference to a 2006 interview with Howard Stern saying Harper Collins told her to omit stuff that Bill Cosby did.

Dickinson and her lawyer in a recent video interview:
http://www.etonline.com/media/video/et_exclusive_janice_dickinson_is_suing_bill_cosby-164869/
They're saying the witnesses are already on oath saying that she told them about this years before others came forward and that they asked Cosby to retract the statement but the request was refused.


Hm but he can arrange more PR events so that he can be seen in more places that Martin Luther King went to, in the hopes that there is honor in association (the opposite of guilt by association). If he's following in King's footsteps he must be a valiant defender of all black people's rights and an overall good person, amirite?
 
I would love, love, love to see BC on the stand in civil court, resorting to his obfuscating rambling style of speech, with a judge ordering him to "answer the question".


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Donjeta said:
The lawyer discussed this in the huffpost discussion linked above. He said that Cosby's public statements (as to how much he can defend himself) are restrained by the risk that if he says they're lying they can then sue for defamation and then he'll have to be deposed, and he can use his fifth amendment rights not to say anything but then in a civil case it will look bad for him.

Maybe that's what got him to publish the statement saying that he did not intend to say Constand was a liar earlier...her lawyers threatened to sue and there might be something weighing heavily on their side in the sealed evidence from the earlier settled case.

He can afford to pay but I don't think he wants to be deposed. If he rambles incoherently in a deposition like he rambles in his interviews it might not be too good.

Deadline has a link to the legal document
http://deadline.com/2015/05/bill-co...ion-rape-allegations-marty-singer-1201430792/





http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/20/us/bill-cosby-sued-by-dickinson/



Daily Mail reprinted the lawyer statement that she's referring to:



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...abricated-lies-photos-case.html#ixzz3al8Lw4os
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I wonder what the lawyers thought about defamation lawsuits at the time they posted this.

The legal document states that at the time she wrote the book she told about the rape to her ghost writer and publisher who both told her that they can't disclose it in the book. I'm assuming they will be called to testify to that effect. Also there is a reference to a 2006 interview with Howard Stern saying Harper Collins told her to omit stuff that Bill Cosby did.

Dickinson and her lawyer in a recent video interview:
http://www.etonline.com/media/video/et_exclusive_janice_dickinson_is_suing_bill_cosby-164869/
They're saying the witnesses are already on oath saying that she told them about this years before others came forward and that they asked Cosby to retract the statement but the request was refused.


Hm but he can arrange more PR events so that he can be seen in more places that Martin Luther King went to, in the hopes that there is honor in association (the opposite of guilt by association). If he's following in King's footsteps he must be a valiant defender of all black people's rights and an overall good person, amirite?
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Wow! That legal document linked from the deadline link you posted doesn't mince words!

Thanks for posting that!
 
http://www.thewrap.com/bill-cosby-s...ion-of-rape-statute-of-limitations-in-nevada/

ise Lotte Lublin, who accused Cosby of drugging her at a Las Vegas hotel in 1989, testified in support of the bill and will speak at a press conference after it is signed into law

The sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby from one woman, in particular, have lead to serious change in Nevada.

The state’s governor, Brian Sandoval, will sign a bill into law on Tuesday afternoon to extend the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution of rape.
 
She stands by him publicly, but behind closed doors, I imagine there is a lot going on. I feel for his wife and daughters.
Quiet Time said:
Has anyone seen his wife standing by him denying these claims? and validating what a great and charitable person he is??

Sarcasm***
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nomoresorrow said:
I have no doubt as to his guilt; 15 + woman don't just come out of the woodwork making claims such as this; claims they know - years past - will have no physical evidence to back them up and, as a result, be scrutinized and disbelieved by many. If this was about money, they could definitely find an easier path. And yeah, the fact that BC was referred to as being in "the presence of greatness" by the president of the BB foundation and continues to receive standing ovations at appearances is disturbing. It serves to further validate and emphasize the fact that we are a rape-culture and a culture that continues to devalue and disbelieve women over men in general, and especially wealthy powerful men. I applaud Netflix and NBC for their decisions and hope more will follow suit because that will be the only form of retribution likely ever seen - BC will never admit to his crimes - he would lose everything.

JMO ~
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I wouldn't be so sure about that. If you are a celebrity, particularly if you are male, there will be a 100% certainty that someone out there will claim that sometime in the past you did this or that heinous deed. And once one person says that, others will certainly follow, true or not.

What people get out of doing that is not necessarily money, it can be other non-tangible things as well, such as attention or sympathy or revenge. There are many motives for people to make stuff up that don't involve money, not to mention those who are delusional and believe all sorts of weird stuff, which could range anything from assault to being in a special relationship of some kind with that person. The psychology of a false accusation is not dissimilar to that of an obsessed fan or stalker, it can happen to anyone for reasons that make no sense what so ever.

Because the stakes in these sorts of accusations is so high and the accusations are so devastating, there MUST be real evidence that it happened, not just someone's say so.
 
Donjeta said:
http://www.thewrap.com/bill-cosby-s...ion-of-rape-statute-of-limitations-in-nevada/

ise Lotte Lublin, who accused Cosby of drugging her at a Las Vegas hotel in 1989, testified in support of the bill and will speak at a press conference after it is signed into law

The sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby from one woman, in particular, have lead to serious change in Nevada.

The state’s governor, Brian Sandoval, will sign a bill into law on Tuesday afternoon to extend the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution of rape.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...s-trigger-change-in-nevada-sex-crime-law.html

The statute of limitations for criminal prosecution of sexual assault has just gone from four years to 20 in Nevada—and that’s because of the wave of accusations against the comedian.

The flood of sexual-assault allegations against Bill Cosby isn’t just making headlines—it’s now having an effect on state-level public policy.

On Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill into law that will extend the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution of sexual assault in Nevada. At a press conference after the private signing ceremony, the bill’s primary sponsor, Democratic Assemblywoman Irene Bustamante Adams, appeared with Lise-Lotte Lublin and Linda Kirkpatrick, two women who say Cosby sexually assaulted them in Nevada in the 1980s.
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WOW!!!!! It's a done deal!!!
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...g-defense-Bill-Cosby-Comedy-Central-skit.html

Amy Schumer has dared to tackle the numerous rape allegations against Bill Cosby in a scathing skit that effectively denounced public reluctance to believe anything bad about the comic great.
On her Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer on Tuesday, the comedienne, 33, defends Cosby in the Court of Public Opinion, reminding a fictional jury just how much his long-running sitcom The Cosby Show made them feel good.
'Let's remind ourselves what's at stake here. If convicted, the next time you put on a rerun of The Cosby Show you may wince a little, you might feel a little pang,' she told them.
'And none of us deserve that. We don't deserve to feel that pain.'
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/27/christopher-harper-kermit-gosnell-among-biggest-me/

Because this column will be my last one for The Washington Times, I decided to take a look back on the more than 100 columns I have written since January 2013 to review my hits and misses.

My biggest miss centered on the charges of sexual harassment by comedian Bill Cosby. I defended him; I shouldn’t have done so.
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Here's what he wrote in November 2014

Despite social media, old Bill Cosby charges don’t justify new stories

Mark Whitaker, the former editor of Newsweek who wrote a recent biography of Mr. Cosby, faced questioners who thought he failed to adequately examine the charges against the comedian.

“In these cases, there were no definitive court findings, there were no independent witnesses, and I just felt, at the end of the day, all I would be doing would be, ‘These people say this, Cosby denies this,’” Mr. Whitaker told The Huffington Post.

That’s the answer I wanted to hear from a journalist. If you don’t have the proof, you don’t hurl the accusations as many news outlets have done recently. The justification for airing the old charges again seemed to be that it was on social media, so the story was fair game.
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(Disclosure: Mr. Cosby serves on the board of trustees of Temple University, where I teach. Mr. Whitaker and I worked together at Newsweek in the 1970s.)
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I wonder what changed his mind.
 
Martin Short took a shot at BC during an appearance on the lead up to David Letterman's final show.
(May 6, 2015)

Short explained an unwritten rule of show business: Don't follow a singer with a singer.

He then uncorked a trio of modern-day unwritten rules: 1. You don't carpool with Suge Knight. 2. You don't say to Bill Cosby, "Hey could you mix my wife a drink?" 3. You don't embark on conversation with Matthew McConaughey without an exit strategy.
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http://www.indystar.com/story/enter...te-show-cbs-martin-short-cher-norah/70937492/
 
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