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TexasTowelie

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Thu Sep 20, 2018, 02:56 AM Sep 2018

Judge nixes Cosby request to step down; sentencing Monday

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Bill Cosby's trial judge is rejecting a defense motion to step down from the sex assault case before Monday's sentencing hearing in suburban Philadelphia.

Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill has seen the case through two trials, hard-fought pretrial hearings and 15 defense lawyers since Cosby's arrest in late 2015.

Camille Cosby argues in a state ethics complaint this week that O'Neill is biased against her husband because of an alleged feud with a former prosecutor who became a witness in the case.

O'Neill in an opinion Wednesday says the defense motion is "meritless" and doesn't raise any new information about his past.

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/cosby/20180919_ap_2faa08fb59154e48b06bb0d3e7c2ce89.html

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Judge nixes Cosby request to step down; sentencing Monday (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2018 OP
So I Guess This Might Be End Of The Line For The Cos LandOfHopeAndDreams Sep 2018 #1
PRISON. even if i laughed at him. pansypoo53219 Sep 2018 #2
 
1. So I Guess This Might Be End Of The Line For The Cos
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 03:42 AM
Sep 2018

He'll probably get at least 5 years, perhaps more. I could see them running the sentences concurrently, so he might actually get out in a couple of years I suppose.

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