NORRISTOWN: Disgraced US megastar comedian Bill Cosby returns to trial Monday for alleged sexual assault, a tougher legal fight the second time around and the most high-profile criminal case so far in a #MeToo world. But the second trial is likely to be dramatically different from the first when opening statements begin at the courthouse in the Philadelphia suburb of Norristown. He also handed a win to the defense in allowing testimony from a former co-worker who alleges that Constand schemed against Cosby. Mesereau’s hardball tactics have already been in evidence in a failed attempt to get the judge booted off the case for alleged bias because his wife works with sexual assault victims. At the time of the alleged assault, Constand was the director of women’s basketball at Temple University, where the actor sat on the board of trustees.

Source: Manila Times April 09, 2018 01:18 UTC