Prosecutors would be able to grill the Cosby on the lurid details of his decade-old deposition testimony that jurors heard Friday, including admissions that he obtained quaaludes to give to women he wanted sex with.
Cosby admitted in the deposition to apologizing to giving Constand pills and touching her in a sexual manner because he thought her family was "coming at me for being a dirty old man", The Daily Beast reported.
James Reape, a detective of the Montgomery County Detective Bureau's major crimes unit who took the stand late Thursday afternoon, returned to testify twice on Friday.
"When you have to deal with examination, cross-examination, etcetera, etcetera, more than two sides to every story, sometimes it's four or five", Cosby explained.
Cosby might testify at his sexual assault trial.
Cosby admits he gave Andrea Benadryl, an over-the-counter antihistamine over a decade ago. Earlier in the trial, Constand's mother testified that she wasn't looking for money from the entertainer. But he said in the deposition that he did not intend to get the foundation involved in the proposed payments to Andrea Constand.
Cosby buoyant as jury deliberates
She sued Cosby in 2005 where he testified as part of that lawsuit, he later settled the case for a sum that was undisclosed. He made some powerful statements that people either said, 'Yeah, Amen, ' or 'That's not the way we are'.
It was not immediately clear whether prosecutors might try to introduce Cosby's prior Quaalude testimony at another point in the trial. When asked whether he would "use them for young women you wanted to have sex with", he answered, "Yes", but said he never gave the drugs to a woman without her knowledge. "I said the only thing I'd like ... from you is an apology".
Valliere has spent over 30 years treating hundreds and even thousands of people impacted by sexual assault, both victims and offenders. Although almost 60 women have levied allegations of sexual assault against him - all of which Cosby and his legal team have vehemently denied - it was the first time he faced a criminal charge.
In the deposition, he recounted a telephone conversation he had with Constand's mother. Would jurors reconsider why Constand may have repeatedly called Cosby after the assault?
Cosby's high-priced legal eagles have asked for a mistrial stating that the witness was offering observations about the once-beloved Fat Albert creator. It presented 12 witnesses, including Constand, her mother and Kelly Johnson, a second Cosby accuser.The Reading Eagle typically does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault, but Constand and Johnson have given media outlets permission to use their names.
In a barrage that all but destroyed Cosby's good-guy reputation, some 60 women have come forward to say he sexually violated them, but the statute of limitations for prosecution had run out in almost every case.
Cosby's defense attorneys have sought to cast doubt on Constand's credibility by revealing she went back to his home after she twice rebuffed his sexual advances, and that she stayed in touch with him after the alleged sexual assault. It included a statement that Cosby first became attracted to Constand, then manager of Temple University's basketball team, in 2003. Earlier in the week, Keshia Knight-Pulliam, who played the youngest daughter, Rudy, on "The Cosby Show", attended in support of Cosby.
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