Bill Cosby loses appeal to overturn 2018 sex assault
Pennsylvania appeals court rejects the actor's bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction.
A Pennsylvania appeals court on Tuesday rejected actor Bill Cosby's bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction over the trial judge's decision to let five other accusers testify.
The state's Superior Court ruling was being closely watched because Cosby was the first celebrity tried and convicted in the #MeToo era. The same issue has been hard-fought in pretrial hearings before movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault trial.
Cosby's lawyers in his appeal said the trial judge had improperly allowed the five women to testify at last year's retrial although he had let just one woman testify at the first trial in 2017.
But the Superior Court said Pennsyl...