Bill Cosby was described as a sex predator in 2015 by the jury while he was being sentence .
Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a minor back in the mid-’70s, a civil jury decided today.
After just over three full days of deliberations and one substitution, the Santa Monica panel this afternoon revealed its decision against the much-accused Cosby Show creator and star. Handing their verdict to L.A. Superior Court Judge Craig Karlan with plaintiff Judy Huth, her legal team and Cosby’s defense team in attendance at the packed courtroom, the 12-person jury also awarded Huth $500,000 in damages.
However, there were no punitive damages awarded from jury of eight women and four men.
'Cosby was not in the courtroom when the message was read.
Claiming his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, Cosby did not testify in the two-week trial, unlike Huth. A 2015 video deposition by the actor was played to the court and jurors during the trial. With his 2018 sex crimes conviction for the 2004 rape of Andrea Constand vacated by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in June 2021, the 84-year-old Cosby is almost certain to appeal today’s verdict, sources tell me.
The man once respectfully called “America’s Dad” was sued for sexual battery and more by Judy Huth back in 2014. The plaintiff alleged that the assault by Cosby occurred at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-’70s when she was a teenager. Huth initially claimed the attack occurred in 1974, when she was 15, but later the plaintiff shifted the date to 1975, when she would have been 16.
Cosby’s representative did not see today’s verdict as a negative, at least not publicly.
“This was a huge victory for us because they was (sic) looking for millions of dollars,” Andrew Wyatt said Tuesday of the $500,000 Huth received in damages. “That amount will not cover the legal bills and we will be appealing that matter. However, Mr. Cosby will not be paying punitive damages.”
Cosby was not in the courtroom when the message was read.
Claiming his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, Cosby did not testify in the two-week trial, unlike Huth. A 2015 video deposition by the actor was played to the court and jurors during the trial. With his 2018 sex crimes conviction for the 2004 rape of Andrea Constand vacated by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in June 2021, the 84-year-old Cosby is almost certain to appeal today’s verdict, sources tell me.
The man once respectfully called “America’s Dad” was sued for sexual battery and more by Judy Huth back in 2014. The plaintiff alleged that the assault by Cosby occurred at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-’70s when she was a teenager. Huth initially claimed the attack occurred in 1974, when she was 15, but later the plaintiff shifted the date to 1975, when she would have been 16.
Cosby’s representative did not see today’s verdict as a negative, at least not publicly.
“This was a huge victory for us because they was (sic) looking for millions of dollars,” Andrew Wyatt said Tuesday of the $500,000 Huth received in damages. “That amount will not cover the legal bills and we will be appealing that matter. However, Mr. Cosby will not be paying punitive damages.”
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