'It's fixed, I have no chance': Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby 'seeks plea deal to avoid prison time in criminal sex assault trial of Temple University student'
- Bill Cosby is reportedly trying to get out of his criminal sexual assault trial because he believes he has 'no chance'
- Cosby, 79, has been accused of drugging and raping more than 50 women
- He faces a criminal trial in June on three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault of former Temple University student Andrea Constand
- He is now said to be avoiding a jury trial since a Pennsylvania judge ruled last week that a decade-old testimony may be used in his criminal trial
- The testimony includes damaging admissions of giving young women drugs and alcohol before sex
- The comedian argued that his deposition should not be admissible since he was promised at the time he would not be criminally charged
- But a Pennsylvania Judge ruled he was never promised this in writing or had an immunity agreement
Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby is seeking a plea deal to avoid prison time for his alleged sex crimes, it has been reported.
Cosby, 79, has been accused of drugging and raping more than 50 women, and faces a criminal trial in June on three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault of a Temple University student.
But he is now said to be avoiding a jury trial since a Pennsylvania judge ruled last week that a decade-old testimony Cosby gave during an accuser's lawsuit may be used in his criminal trial.
The testimony includes damaging admissions of giving young women drugs and alcohol before sex.
Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby (center) is seeking a plea deal to avoid prison time for his alleged sex crimes
Cosby has been accused of drugging and raping more than 50 women, and faces a criminal trial in June on three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault of former Temple University student Andrea Constand (left and right)
'He and his family, including his wife, Camille, are adamant that Bill won’t be able to convince a jury to let him off,' a source close the family told the New York Post.
'Cosby and his family believe he’ll be eligible for a sentence of just probation — and remove the threat of him dying in prison,' the source told the newspaper.
The source added: 'They are hoping that the district attorney will feel as though he’s won with a plea deal and they’re thinking that the DA will consider Cosby’s age, his medical condition, the fact that he’s paid the victim on the case millions, and the fact that his career is over.'
The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office declined to comment on a plea deal, the Post reported.
Cosby, 79, is reportedly avoiding a jury trial since a Pennsylvania judge ruled last week that a damaging testimony from a decade-old case against the disgraced comedian may be used in his criminal trial
Cosby's defense team had insisted that he only testified in the old case after being promised he wouldn't be charged over his 2004 encounter with accuser Andrea Constand, a former Temple University student.
But his lawyers at the time never had an immunity agreement or put anything in writing.
'This court concludes that there was neither an agreement nor a promise not to prosecute, only an exercise of prosecutorial discretion,' Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill wrote in his ruling.
After the ruling, Cosby said: 'It’s fixed — I have no chance,' the Post reported.
Cosby and his wife Camille (right) are 'adamant that he won’t be able to convince a jury to let him off', a source close to the couple has said
Cosby, 79, acknowledged in the 2006 deposition that he had a string of extramarital relationships with young women. He called them consensual, but many of the women say they were drugged and molested.
He also described getting seven prescriptions for quaaludes in the 1970s, which he said he kept on hand to give women he hoped to seduce, 'the same as a person would say, "Have a drink."'
The release of the deposition testimony last year prompted prosecutors to reopen Constand's 2005 criminal complaint.
Cosby, asked about the 2004 encounter at his home with Constand, described being on his couch and putting his hand down her pants.
'I don't hear her say anything. And I don't feel her say anything. And so I continue and I go into the area that is somewhere between permission and rejection. I am not stopped,' he testified.
Cosby argued that his deposition should not be admissible since he was promised at the time he would not be criminally charged. But a Pennsylvania judge ruled he was never promised this in writing or had an immunity agreement
Prosecutors describe Constand as being semiconscious after Cosby gave her three unmarked blue pills for stress.
She said she later woke up with her vaginal area feeling painful and raw, and saw her clothes spread out all over the room. She said Cosby was in his bathrobe, according to Heavy.com.
She also said she was in a relationship with a woman at the time of the alleged assault, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The ruling on the deposition is one of two key pretrial issues that will determine the scope of the evidence against Cosby at trial.
The other question is how many other accusers will be allowed to testify in prosecutors' attempt to show a pattern of similar conduct.
Prosecutors hope to call 13 additional women who say they were assaulted by Cosby as far back as the 1960s. Two days of arguments on that issue are set for next week.
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