The Line of Accusers

Cosby lawyer Jaya Gupta told the judge that Chelan Lasha's guilty plea for making a false report to Arizona law enforcement "bears on her veracity. State law bars talk of witness convictions more than a decade old, but Gupta argued Lasha's conviction should be an exception since her allegations against Cosby date to Assistant District Attorney Stewart Ryan argued the defence will get a chance to test Lasha's credibility when she's cross-examined.

The former model and aspiring actress said she was immobilised and unable to speak as Cosby assaulted her after giving her a pill he described as an antihistamine. Her lawyer, Gloria Allred, said the defence is trying to smear Lasha. Tom Mesereau said in his opening statement on Tuesday Wednesday NZT that the financially troubled Constand "hit the jackpot" when Cosby paid her in The settlement included a provision that she keep quiet about the alleged encounter. Constand outlined her scheme to a Temple colleague, Marguerite Jackson, Mesereau said. The defence plans to call Jackson as a witness, and Mesereau said she will testify that Constand mused about setting up a celebrity so she could sue and get money.

And we'll prove it.

The defence fought for the chance to tell jurors about the previously secret settlement. An FBI investigation that did not include interviews of Dr. Deborah Ramirez, who accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her at a college party, also released a statement through her lawyers.

This is how victims are isolated and silenced. She, too, mentioned other witnesses that she wished had been able to speak with the FBI during its investigation of the allegations against Kavanaugh. This is truly a collective moment of survivors and allies standing together.

I am grateful for each and every one of you. A third woman, Julie Swetnick, also accused Kavanaugh of misconduct, though her allegations were not included in the FBI investigation.

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Cosby, who portrayed kindly Dr. Lasha, Baker-Kinney and a third woman who also testified, Heidi Thomas, are among five additional accusers whom prosecutors plan to call to make the case that Cosby, once revered as "America's Dad," was a Hollywood predator who is only now facing a reckoning after allegedly assaulting Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in The defense has urged jurors to ignore the other accusers, calling their allegations irrelevant to the charges involving Constand, who turned 45 on Wednesday. Outside court, Cosby spokeswoman Ebonee Benson called the testimony from prior accusers a "prosecution by distraction.

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Constand, a former Temple University women's basketball administrator, alleges Cosby gave her pills and then molested her. He says the encounter was consensual. Under questioning by prosecutors Wednesday, Baker-Kinney said she has long blamed herself for taking the pills that Cosby gave her. I don't want to think that something that happened to me is my fault.

I push it away. I don't think about it.

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But it's going to be with me forever. Baker-Kinney was unflappable under cross examination, calling out Cosby lawyer Tom Mesereau for rolling his eyes at her and chiding the veteran defense attorney for what she said was a bald attempt to twist what she told police about being assaulted.

Prosecutors Line Up Cosby's Accusers