{"id":38500,"date":"2021-06-30T13:54:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=38500"},"modified":"2021-06-30T13:54:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:54:59","slug":"bill-cosby-released-from-prison-as-court-overturns-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=38500","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cosby Released from Prison as Court Overturns Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"419\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/EBIgf0SvRPHWYqlfixZ4Bde6nC5YKYhvun_QDRgeqjAj6woPmHIjIvzO_-VsYVcXmmifqGxyubiBUl7JxR0O84HHPgt5jbAbdmLE2ZAhHTCPMekFdD-NLGTos7sqAzHxNgm3YuJM\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bill Cosby<\/strong> has been released from the state prison after serving two years as <strong>Pennsylvania Supreme Court<\/strong> overturned his conviction of sexual assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Actor and comedian Bill Cosby, popularly known for <strong><em>The Cosby Show<\/em><\/strong> and <em><strong>Fat Albert<\/strong><\/em>, was released from Pennsylvania state prison after serving two years there. Cosby was convicted in 2018 after being found guilty of molesting an ex-basketball player in 2004 and was to serve a 3-10-year sentence in state prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court overturned Cosby\u2019s conviction on Wednesday, June 30 citing &#8220;prosecutorial mistakes.&#8221;  An excerpt from the court ruling states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;When an unconditional charging decision is made publicly and with the intent to induce action and reliance by the defendant, and when the defendant does so to his detriment (and in some instances upon the advice of counsel), denying the defendant the benefit of that decision is an affront to fundamental fairness, particularly when it results in a criminal prosecution that was foregone for more than a decade&#8230; For these reasons, Cosby\u2019s convictions and judgment of sentence are vacated, and he is discharged.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court further barred any retrials regarding this case. Cosby, 83, is known to be the first celebrity to have been tried and convicted as a result of the <strong>#MeToo<\/strong> movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-06-30\/bill-cosby-s-sex-assault-conviction-overturned-by-court\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nBill Cosby has been released from prison after the court overturns his sexual assault conviction from 2018.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=38500\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Bill Cosby Released from Prison as Court Overturns Conviction&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":38516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[824],"tags":[5660,5659,5658,5662],"class_list":["post-38500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-metoo","tag-assault","tag-cosby","tag-pennsylvania-2","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bill Cosby Released from Prison as Court Overturns Conviction - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=38500\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bill Cosby Released from Prison as Court Overturns Conviction - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bill Cosby has been released from prison after the court overturns his sexual assault conviction from 2018. 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