A change in jurors pushed back the verdict in the most recent Bill Cosby trial
Bill Cosby Photo: Mark Makela/Getty Images Nearly one year after Bill Cosby walked out of prison on a legal technicality, he’s headed back to court in Los Angeles, where yet another woman has sued him for sexual assault. Judy Huth says that, when she was around 16 years old, the comedian brought her and a friend to the Playboy Mansion and molested her in a bedroom.
What does Cosby have to say about that? Cosby claims that the assault didn’t happen — or not the way she says it did. His legal team has pointed to inconsistencies in Huth’s account. Cosby’s attorneys argue he wasn’t at the Playboy Mansion, or filming in the area she described, in 1974. They point to the Mansion’s guest logs for that year, noting that neither Huth’s nor her friend’s name are listed among the visitors.
Why is the case going to trial now? In 2020, California extended its statute of limitations for child-sex-abuse complaints. The new guidelines make accommodations specifically for adults who have repressed memories of incidents that occurred when they were minors, then find themselves dealing with psychological injury later on. Initially, Huth said the encounter left her “so mentally scarred that she only recently connected her psychological issues.
Who has testified? The court has heard from the friend who allegedly accompanied Huth to the mansion: Donna Samuelson, who testified on June 1 that Huth confided the assault in her directly after it happened. “She said, ‘I want to go, I wanna leave,’ she was crying,” Samuelson recalled. The then-17-year-old didn’t want to go and got angry with Huth. But then, Samuelson continued, her friend “said Bill Cosby had tried to have sex with her.
“I had no clue what it could be,” Huth continued. She said Cosby had them follow him to the mansion in a car, and that she took a photo with the comedian — the one mentioned above, which Huth says helped her remember the timeline — about 15 minutes “before he molested” her. The next day, she spoke to the alleged assault itself. “He forced himself on me,” she said, explaining through tears that Cosby had allegedly tried to shove his hand inside her pants.
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