Bill Cosby Sex Assault Scandal: Cosby Adding Criminal Attorney as Pennsylvania DA Considers Reopening 2005 Case?
Bill Cosby is rumored to be contemplating adding a criminal attorney to his stable of legal representatives, as prosecutors in Pennsylvania continue to weigh reopening a decade-old sexual assault complaint filed against him.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, attorney Edwin Jacobs contends he was recently contacted by representatives for Cosby concerning a Montgomery County probe into allegations initially raised in 2005 by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand. Jacobs told the newspaper he referred the caller to another attorney.
Over the last several months, more than 50 women have emerged to claim they were drugged and sexually assaulted by the legendary comedian over a period that spans more than four decades beginning in the 1960s. Cosby has long denied all the allegations and has never faced criminal charges stemming from any of the alleged incidents.
Radar Online previously reported Cosby's high-powered legal team is now "scrambling" to prepare for the inevitability of having to defend the "Cosby Show" star in an upcoming trial.
"He's been told to expect charges," said a source. "Because of everything that has come out, law enforcement from Philadelphia to LA are looking for any loophole that could send him to jail. They think they've found one."
DA Risa Vetri Ferman has until the end of the year to officially decide if she will seek criminal charges against the now 78-year-old Cosby. Reportedly, Constand has already agreed to cooperate in any future proceedings.
Early next month, Cosby is also slated to be deposed in California in a civil case, in which former Playboy bunny Judy Huth claims he sexually abused her at the Playboy mansion more than 40 years ago when she was just 15 years old. The interrogation is slated to be handled by famed civil rights attorney Gloria Allred.
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