Jennifer Bonjean, the lawyer of American comedian Bill Cosby has demanded that the U.S. Supreme Court rejects a bid by prosecutors to revive his client’s criminal s3x assault case.
Recall that the comedian was set free by Pennsylvania’s highest court on Wednesday June 30, after nearly three years in prison following a decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacating his 2018 conviction on three charges of aggravated indecent assault.
Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned Bill Cosby’s s3x assault conviction after finding an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case.
The court ruled in June that a “non-prosecution agreement” with a prior prosecutor should have precluded him from being criminally charged in the case. Cosby was released from prison on June 30.
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However, the District Attorney’s Office in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania later filed a petition to review the overturned s3x-crime conviction against veteran American comedian Bill Cosby.
In the petition, the District Attorney demanded that the high court consider whether that agreement in which then-prosecutor Bruce Castor promised not to file criminal charges against Cosby if the comedian would testify in a civil lawsuit — should be treated as “a grant of immunity.”
In his latest reaction to the petition, Bill Cosby’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean says the case rests on a narrow set of facts that should not interest the Supreme Court.
“Notwithstanding the commonwealth’s warning of imminent catastrophic consequences, the Cosby holding will likely be confined to its own ‘rare, if not entirely unique’ set of circumstances, making review by this court particularly unjustified,” she wrote in the 15-page response filed Monday.
