Author: Bobby Allyn From / Source: NPR.org
Bill Cosby’s wife says the 80-year-old comedian was the victim of “lynch mobs” and that her husband’s conviction on sexual assault charges was the result of a “frenzy” advanced by the media and the untrustworthy account of main accuser Andrea Constand.
In the first public statements made by Camille Cosby since a jury found her husband guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault last month, she said the case that could send the comedy legend to prison for the rest of his life was “mob justice, not real justice.”
The inflammatory, three-page written statement calls for the district attorney who prosecuted Cosby to be criminally investigated.
Cosby’s wife of more than five decades also equated Cosby’s fate to the death of Emmett Till, the black teen who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after witnesses said they saw him suggestively whistling at a white woman. The killers, meanwhile, were acquitted.
“Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law,” Camille Cosby wrote. “This is mob justice, not real justice. This tragedy must be undone not just for Bill Cosby, but for the country.”
During Cosby’s two trials, Camille Cosby was largely absent from the courtroom. Yet she has fiercely stood by her husband’s side in the face of more than 60 women accusing him of sexual misconduct.
She appeared just once during Cosby’s…
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