Cosby’s handlers are spreading the bogus idea that women regularly level false accusations. But save your outrage, advises Anne Kingston, because the whole thing is a smokescreen.
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Canadian content at Bill Cosby’s trial: Why it mattered
From Roots to Canadian drug laws, references to this country reminded onlookers that the complainant was not American. Did Andrea Constand’s nationality insulate her from the forces that kept other accusers silent?
Was sending Fat Albert to jail ever in the cards?
Celebrity figured large in Bill Cosby’s trial. Did it factor into the verdict, too?
Fear and loathing at Cosby trial gets worse by the hour
Bill Cosby’s deadlocked jurors are surely getting on each others’ nerves. But the tension outside the jury room might just be worse.
Cosby trial a ‘three-ring circus of rape culture,’ says one accuser
Former Cosby Show actor Lili Bernard is disgusted with the defence’s attacks on Andrea Constand, but believes the accused has been ‘disempowered’
Why Bill Cosby’s jury is deadlocked
Only the jurors know, of course. But testimony over the past few days has raised potential points of contention, and more than a few unanswered questions.
Four enigmatic requests from Bill Cosby’s jury
Cosby’s remarks about consent were preoccupying the panel, and so were discrepancies in the prosecution’s evidence. As the parties waited anxiously, there was no sign of a verdict.
Bill Cosby’s creepy ideas about women and sex go back decades
In his 1989 book, girls and women were alien objects who needed to be tricked or coerced into sex. Statements produced at his trial suggest that, years later, little had changed.
Cosby’s lawyer in final, chair-pounding plea to jury: ‘Can’t we stop this?’
It’s the prosecutor’s methodical connection of dots against the defence’s incredulity, as the jury takes Cosby’s fate into its hands
Bill Cosby’s trial calls experts on pink and blue pills
On Quaaludes, Benadryl — and the heavy weight of a burden of proof.