By Jeremy Roebuck – jroebuck@phillynews.com/In a victory for Bill Cosby, a Montgomery County judge ruled Friday that he would allow only one additional accuser to testify at the 79-year-old entertainer’s sexual assault trial. Judge Steven T. O’Neill offered little explanation for his decision to bar prosecutors from calling 12 other women whose testimony they hoped could establish a decades-long pattern of sexual misconduct by Cosby. But in his one-page order, the judge said he had carefully weighed their potential value as witnesses against the threat that their unproven allegations might prejudice a jury. Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele had proposed a public airing of multiple instances — all too old to prosecute — where Cosby allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted women. Read More Of This StorySource: www.philly.com(Visited 5 times, 1 visits today)Commentscomments

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