Source: NBC News
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby is expected to learn Tuesday whether he will go to prison for up to ten years or be sent home on probation, almost five months to the day after he was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand.
Once regarded as “America’s Dad” for his lovable character as Dr.
Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” the actor now carries the distinction of being the first celebrity to go on trial and the first to be convicted in the age of #MeToo. He didn’t say anything as he walked into the courthouse with his spokesman Tuesday morning.Andrea Constand, 45, says Cosby drugged and assaulted her at his Pennsylvania home in 2004 after she came to him for career advice. The former Temple University women’s basketball administrator is one of at least 60 women who have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct — ranging from groping to assault to rape — but he has been charged criminally only in the Constand case.
Cosby, 81, settled Constand’s civil claim in 2006 for $3.4 million and has repeatedly denied all allegations of sexual misconduct.
In the Constand case, in which Cosby was found guilty in April on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, the entertainer could face up to ten years of prison. But his lawyers are arguing he should serve his time on house arrest, given his age. They have said they plan to appeal any prison time, and it’s unclear whether Cosby would remain free during that process.
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