Cosby lawyers seek to bar some alleged victims from sex assault trial

Invoice Cosby's lawyers will ask a California state assess on Wednesday to keep more than a number of females who have charged the comic of sex-related attack off the observe stand at his test on expenses of molesting a former golf ball trainer at his Alma mater.

More than 60 females have charged the 79-year-old performer, once dearest by People in america as the dad on the 1980's TV hit "The Cosby Display," of intimately fighting them, often after plying them with liquor and medicines, in a sequence of strikes going back years.

Only one of those statements led to legal expenses, registered against Cosby times before the time limit was to end. Andrea Con-stand, a former golf ball trainer at Cosby's Alma mater Forehead School, said he provided her tablets before fighting her at his California house in 2004.

Prosecutors have requested Judge Steven O'Neill of Montgomery Nation Judge of Common Pleas in California to allow 13 other females who have charged Cosby of sex-related attack to admit at test in order to demonstrate he involved in a design of drugging and fighting his claimed sufferers.




Cosby has continuously declined any wrongdoing. O'Neill has planned couple of times of proceedings on the suggested witnesses and other pre-trial issues.

In common, prosecutors are prohibited from presenting proof of a defendant's irrelevant prior bad functions for worry it could tendency the court. On unusual events, however, most judges will allow it if the proof reveals a clear and historical design of actions.

Prosecutors are also looking for authorization to use Cosby's sworn statement from a buildup during Con-stand's 2005 municipal court action, in which Cosby recognized offering females with drugs and then having consensual sex-related activities with them.

Cosby's lawyers have requested O'Neill to bar that buildup from the test, disagreeing that Cosby only decided to admit after the then-Montgomery Nation da confident him no legal expenses would be introduced.

In addition, his lawyers have installed yet another attempt to disregard the situation, this time based on the discussion that prosecutors patiently waited too long to bring the situation.


In court documents registered last week, his lawyers said Cosby is lawfully sightless and has storage problems, avoiding him from fully taking part in planning his own protection.

The test is set for July.

(Reporting by John Ax in New York; Modifying by Scott Malone and From Craft)