US comedian Bill Cosby, who is serving a 3 and a half year jail term, lost his appeal against his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago.
, on Tuesday, December 10 lost his appeal against his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago.to Pennsylvania's Superior Court, which issued a 94-page ruling upholding his conviction. He could now take his case to the state's Supreme Court.
A Pennsylvania judge sentenced the actor to a minimum 3 and a half years in prison on 3 counts of aggravated indecent assault. Although more than 60 women charged that they had been victims of sexual assault by Cosby, he was tried criminally only for Constand's assault, since the statute of limitations had expired in the other cases.
But the appeals court ruled that their evidence had established Cosby's"unique sexual assault playbook."
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