He’s 84 and blind. Who’s he going to hurt…he should be home and free and away from all of those germs,’ Jackson shared with The Philadelphia Tribune.
n a recent statement, Bill Cosby has thanked Jesse Jackson for calling for his prison release amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rev. Jackson recently spoke with The Philadelphia Tribune about Cosby. He told the Tribune, “He’s 84 and blind. Who’s he going to hurt…he should be home and free and away from all of those germs.”
Cosby is currently serving a three-to-10-year prison term after being convicted in 2018 on three aggravated sexual assault counts.
In the article, Jackson said, “the government needs to do something…he shouldn’t still be in prison.” Jackson continued to speak to Cosby’s career when explaining why he should be free, saying, “He’s helped so many, many people…I’m coming forward to speak out because I believe in justice too.”
Cosby’s publicist Andrew Wyatt issued an official statement on behalf of Cosby and his wife to USA Todayon the matter. It reads, “Mr. & Mrs. Cosby are forever grateful to Reverend Jackson and his family because he has been working feverishly to get the State of PA to release Mr. Cosby, since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, back in April.”
According to the Tribune, Cosby’s release does not seem to be a possibility. The Department of Corrections press secretary, Maria A. Bivens, revealed, “The PA DOC [Department of Corrections] does not have the authority to release inmates. The authority to release would come as a court order, pardon, commutation or parole action. Based on the reprieve criteria exempting sex offenders, inmate Cosby is not eligible for a reprieve.”
It seems that Cosby and his team are keeping their faith. Wyatt also said to USA Today, “We remain hopeful and prayerful that the PA State Supreme Court will vacate Mr. Cosby’s false imprisonment, due to Mr. Cosby having immunity. If that’s not the case, we are hopeful and prayerful that the PA State Supreme Court will warrant Mr. Cosby a new trial.”
Andrea Constand
Date of Alleged Assault – 2004
Date of Accusation – 2004
In 2004, Andrea Constand filed a lawsuit against Cosby for sexual assault. She claimed he drugged her in 2004 at his Pennsylania mansion.The legal documents filed claimed he “rubbed the woman’s breasts and genital areas and ‘digitally penetrated’ her, meaning with his finger,” according to ABC News.
Constand later reported the incident to the Durham, Ontario, police, but charges were never filed. Bowman was asked to testify against the comedian, which she agreed to do but was unable to take the stand after the case was settled out of court.
Cosby repeatedly denied Constand’s claims, but Pennsylvania prosecutors twice prosecuted him on assault charges. In April 2018, a jury found him guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault and he was later sentenced to serve three to 10 years in a state prison and declared a “sexually violent predator.”
Cosby paid this women 5 million dollars and she asked him after this incident for years for recommendation letters and her mother referred to him as her boyfriend on tape she continued to come around for years after the incident. I am not saying he was right I think he paid enough for this one. He was first go down in the me too era. Matt Lauer, Charlie Sheen, President Trump, Rob Lowe and host of other white men.
Brock Tuner he served 3 months for a rape. Be cause his life mattered
The woman who Brock Turner was convicted of sexually assaulting in 2016 has come forward, not only revealing her real name but also releasing a new memoir.
In the book titled “Know My Name,” which she began working on in 2017, Chanel Miller discusses the assault, which occurred after a fraternity party in 2015, The New York Times reported.
In a “60 Minutes” segment to be aired in full Sept. 22, Miller read part of the victim statement that she previously read in court to Turner.
“You don’t know me but you’ve been inside me. In newspapers, my name was ‘unconscious, intoxicated woman.’ Ten syllables and nothing more than that. I had to force myself to relearn my real name, my identity, to relearn that this is not all that I am, that I am not just a drunk victim at a frat party found behind a dumpster. While you are the all-American swimmer at a top university, innocent until proven guilty with so much at stake. You cannot give me. You cannot give me back the life I had,” she read in the clip.
In January 2015, Turner was a 19-year-old freshman and swimmer at Stanford and Miller, then identified only as Jane Doe, was a 22-year-old recent college graduate who went to the party with friends.
In an interview with ABC News in June 2016, Swedish doctoral student Carl-Fredrik Arndt said he and his friend Peter Jonsson were riding their bikes through campus in January 2015 when they spotted Turner on top of a woman behind a dumpster outside a fraternity house. Jonsson immediately sensed something wasn’t right, Arndt said.
“She wasn’t moving,” he told ABC News during the 2016 interview. “She was half-naked.”(MORE: Attorney for former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner makes ‘outercourse’ argument in appeal of sex assault conviction)
The two Swedes decided to intervene and there was an exchange of words. Then, Turner fled as the two men approached, Arndt said. Jonsson chased down Turner while Arndt stayed with the victim. Arndt said the woman was unconscious the entire time and he checked “to make sure she was still alive.”
I had to force myself to relearn my real name, my identity, to relearn that this is not all that I am, that I am not just a drunk victim at a frat party found behind a dumpster.
Arndt said he and Jonsson restrained Turner, as they called police and waited until officers arrived. The two graduate students testified in court.
A Santa Clara County jury convicted Turner in March 2016 of three felony charges: assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated/unconscious person, penetration of an intoxicated person and penetration of an unconscious person.
In court, Miller read a statement to the judge that directly addressed her attacker and also thanked the two Swedes. She shared her story in court, detailing how she was unconscious and had no memory of much of the night. Her letter went viral after she gave it to the media.
“Most importantly, thank you to the two men who saved me, who I have yet to meet,” her letter reads. “I sleep with two bicycles that I drew taped above my bed to remind myself there are heroes in this story. That we are looking out for one another. To have known all of these people, to have felt their protection and love, is something I will never forget.”
In June 2016, however, trial Judge Aaron Persky drew criticism when he sentenced Turner to six months in county jail and three years’ probation, based on the recommendation of the probation department. Prosecutors had asked for a six-year prison sentence.(MORE: California voters oust judge who sentenced Stanford swimmer to six months for sexual assault)
Turner served three months in jail and was released on Sept. 2, 2016. Following his release, he returned to his hometown of Oakwood, Ohio, where he registered as a sex offender.
Persky’s sentence of Turner triggered widespread outrage and a recall campaign, in which voters in Santa Clara County removed the 15-year judge from the bench in a June 2018 California primary election.
Some of the backlash against Persky also stemmed from Turner’s being sentenced to jail rather than prison. The judge had cited the “severe impact” that prison would have on the athlete.
In July 2018, Eric Multhaup, an attorney for the former Stanford University swimmer, argued before a three-judge panel in state appellate court in San Jose, California, that the conviction should be overturned because his client was fully clothed.
Multhaup said that because Turner was fully clothed and his genitals were not exposed when he was confronted, the prosecution’s case fell short of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Turner intended to rape the woman.
Deputy Attorney General Alisha Carlile argued that the conviction should stand, telling the judges that Santa Clara County prosecutors presented sufficient evidence in the high-profile case and the jury reached its verdict “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
In August 2018, Turner’s appeal and request for a new trial was denied.
Miller’s book is set to be released in bookstores Sept. 24.
Justice in this country is not color blind. Black and brown people get the harshest treatment. 10 years in jail is death sentence a death sentence for Cosby and he is blind and old. He was wrong but does he deserve to die for this one case. Not the cases in the past he was not charged with those. Set him free to live his life at home is his kids and wife. You told him he is black and guilty and that is enough time. Set him free. Brock Turner was a monster he rapped women of color her life does not matter. But the system set him free and Cosby is left to die in jail.
