Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault Conviction

Re:Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault... by metalliqaz on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:35PM (#27691299)

"scumbag prosecutor" is not fair. I don't know him or her, and I'm sure you don't either.

Based on my not-a-lawyer experience, it is very likely that at every stage the prosecution team was going for exactly what they though they could prove in court at the time. They can't predict what evidence may come out in the future, and they can't predict how Judges will interpret the facts.

There were many victims. Not prosecuting one doesn't mean they can't for the others.

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Re:Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault... by mikestew on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:40PM (#27691363)

"scumbag prosecutor" is not fair.

They reneged on the deal, and a conviction with a prison sentence was the result. I thought "scumbag" was the more polite option, frankly, but what word would you prefer? Not that I'll not stick with "scumbag", but I'm always open to new, perhaps more creative options.

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Re:Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault... by metalliqaz on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @03:47PM (#27692709)

uhm, do you remember who they were prosecuting?

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Re:Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault... by JoeyBananas on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @04:28PM (#27693084)

The fact that they had to make a deal with Cosby to get him to testify indicates that they didn't have a strong case against him.

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Re:Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault... by underseacables on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:41PM (#27691374)

Scumbag prosecutor. The greatest threat to civil Liberty is not the police, it is the prosecutors who are immune from liability even if they break the law and put an innocent person in jail. We must remove immunity from both prosecutors and judges.

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Re:Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault... by mcphage on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:49PM (#27691479)

> even if they break the law and put an innocent person in jail

Which innocent person are you talking about here?

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Re:Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault... by xeromal on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @03:18PM (#27692438)

Cosby is legally innocent. He made a deal with the state and the state lied. If the state doesn't keep its agreements, the government is a sham.

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Re:Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault... by mcphage on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @03:32PM (#27692571)

"Found not guilty" and "innocent" are not the same thing. "Conviction overturned because of prosecutorial mistakes" and "innocent" aren't even in the same ballpark. Nobody is questioning whether Cosby did it—the evidence at the heart of this is his admission that he did. The issue is whether that evidence could be used in his conviction.

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Re:Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault... by imbnwa on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @05:02PM (#27693391)

> Cosby is legally innocent

I feel this captures the extent of what you're saying, unless we're making an implicit claim about "using the word innocent in this context has X,Y,Z societal side effects", etc etc

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Re:Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault... by mcphage on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:48AM (#27711488)

Using the word "innocent" implies that they didn't do what they are accused of.

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