Source: NBC News
The sentencing process for Bill Cosby starts Monday in a courtroom outside Philadelphia, and the punitive fate of the entertainer could be clear by Tuesday.
Cosby, 81, was convicted in April of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand, 45, who said he drugged and assaulted her at his Pennsylvania home in 2004 after she came to him for career advice.
Each count carries 22 months to 10 years behind bars, but it’s possible, given his age, that Cosby’s defense team will argue for home detention. The judge could also make the possible sentences concurrent so that 10 years would be the maximum for the entire case.
Cosby’s attorneys have said they plan to appeal, regardless.
“I still think that an elder defendant will argue that given his age, he should be allowed to stay out on appeal,” Loyola Law School Professor Laurie Levenson said in an email. “However, I don’t think that it is at all a certainty. Although Cosby is not a flight risk, he doesn’t seem to have any clear winners for his appeal.”
Factors working against the comedian include lack of public remorse, no apologies and criticism of the judge in the case, Steven T. O’Neill, the subject of expletive-laden criticism from the showman. And Camille Cosby last week claimed in a state ethics complaint that the judge is biased against her husband.
Cosby settled Constand’s civil claim in 2006 for $3.4 million. It’s not clear if that could weigh for or against…
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