Cosby hires Michael Jacksons lawyer for sex assault retrial
By The Associated Press AUGUST 21, 2017
PHILADELPHIA Bill Cosby has hired Michael Jacksons former lawyer to represent him at his November retrial on sexual assault charges in Pennsylvania.
Cosbys spokesman announced Monday that the 80-year-old comedian is bringing in Tom Mesereau to lead a retooled defense team. Lawyers from the first trial in June had said they wanted off the case. Mesereau won an acquittal in Jacksons 2004 child molestation trial. He has also represented boxer Mike Tyson, actor Robert Blake and rap mogul Marion Suge Knight.
Mesereau will be joined by Sam Silver, who represented now-imprisoned former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah of Pennsylvania in a corruption case, and former federal prosecutor Kathleen Bliss.
Cosbys first trial on charges he drugged and molested a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004 ended in a hung jury.
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