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SoâŚthat leaves 43 other women he raped but didnât or couldnât sue him? Or was it he didnât sue them? What a clown this guy is. Hope he loses it all either way.
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Mr. Cosby, give it up. Just. Give. It. Up.
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In the New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin expects Cosby to end the year both in prison and destitute. If the overwhelming evidence that heâs a serial rapist is true, that is truly a deserved fate.
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Canât wait until he goes to trial anywaysâŚand refuses to testifyâŚafter filing these bogus suits trying to harass these women into dropping charges. They arenât going away. When you drug women so they canât fight back, youâre a bigger coward than most rapists.
When your try to litigate your way out of trouble, youâre Trump.
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iâm not a lawyer, but I understand that an attorney has a duty to disclose risk to which a client may be exposing himself by sustaining some sort of lawsuit. Surely his attys have warned him that his suit may open a can of worms.
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Iâm willing to bet that somewhere there are a few dozen perfectly rational lawyers and PR people who are saying to themselves, âYes, this is a good strategy given our clientâs situation.â
I mean, just because Cosby is a serial rapist doesnât mean his money wonât still buy good help.
So it really makes me wonder what grisly alternative theyâre contemplating if they DONâT countersue. I donât know what the legal ramifications of this kind of move are, but apparently theyâve completely given up on rehabilitating his image. Even if women start recanting, itâll just look like he bullied them into it.
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Yeah, I canât see this as a good move on any front for Cosby. He is in no criminal danger of prosecution, and it only opens him for discovery which would aid in forth coming counter suits against him by these women.
From a PR perspective, its a no win all the way aroundâŚit keeps the story in the press, which is bad all the way around for him, and if he wins,like you said, it will appear that he bullied them into shutting up and if he loses, wellâŚit makes their claims look even more certain.
Maybe his lawyers think they can win and somehow preempt the women from suing him down the road.But that still leaves 43 other women, which will also be privy to everything that comes out in discovery.
Unless Mrs. Cosby has been riding him about this so long now, that he is doing so to show her âlook, I didnt do anythingâŚnow will you take the pill and go back to sleep, please??â
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Oh boy. I guess he has to do something, at least from his p.o.v. But isnât this just going to keep it going in the tabloids forever? His brand was Americaâs dad, so he canât then be Americaâs serial rapist of young, vulnerable women without losing his entire brand. People just never go away anymore, do they? I wish that were possibleâshame leading to self-banishment. But his life IS the limelight, so losing that is something he canât live with.
Is there any evidence that coming out as one of Bill Cosbyâs many victims is a big moneymaker? I just canât see the case working on merits. Go away, Bill.
Nothing says rapist dick like suing your victims!!
So why these seven and not the other hundred victims you raped?
My first thought was âWhat a jackass.â
My second thought was, âWhat if one of these women were lying?â Not that I support false accusations of rape, but whatâs his defense? Iâd absolutely love to see him try to explain, no, I didnât rape THAT one. If I were the organizer of this group Iâd be tempted to put in a ringer just to see him go batshit trying to defend himself.
âSeven of those 50 women are liars!â
Time for a new lawyer.
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In a statement, Cosbyâs lawyer, Monique Pressley, said the womenâs âmultidecade-old, false, uncorroborated, opportunistic allegations of sexual assault have caused and continue to cause him to suffer substantial injuries and damagesâ to his reputation and business contracts.
As a lawyer, I can tell you that the more adjectives an attorney crams into a sentence to describe the other sideâs position, the more her side is full of shit.
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Iâm predicting that Cosby will drop this case as soon as someone explains to him that truth is always a defense for libel and when the jury sees thirty or more women testify to being drugged and raped by Mister Cosby, things will be much worse for his âreputation and character,â not better.
Itâs all just too creepy for me.
The biggest changeb for me is when I watched Bill Cosby on old I Spy episodes. The thought I had watching every episode was a question. I wondered if he raped the actresses on th show.
Statute of imitations for libel is three years in MA and court fillings arenât actionable. The lawyers for the women will have anticipated this move and told them not to make any public statements.
It will be interesting to see the actual complaint. The dates and times of the alleged statements have to be specified.
The chance that Cosby can prevail here is very very small. Particularly when his âSpanish Flyâ routine is out there.
What a sad ending to a guy that could have left a really great legacy and still gotten laid anytime he wanted. Why do we guys let the little head do so much of the thinking?
50 women coming out completely independent of each other with the exact same fabricated story is a mathematical impossibility. That is how I know Bill Cosby is guilty. The law suit just shows he is even a bigger monster then we ever imagined.