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Be tried at their time, is that absolute? is it possible that they could try an avenue of appeal? or is cosby basically out for good in the prosecutor has to throw in the towel? >> it is a great question. it does not seem that there will be any further prosecutions, but the civil legislation that can come down the pipe there could be some form of restitution for the individuals in the future. >> john: but there is a statute of limitations on the civil aspect as well, 12 years for the criminal, d...

20-25 years old. too old to be consistent with the acts that he was being charged with. >> shannon: lets talk about that, because there are statutes of limitations, for charges of people facing out there of. you talk about this break in the accuser and having the show of pattern of prime or practice of the defendant that you need them to be more temporarily located in time to each other, and time seems to be such an issue in this case, because when you talk about years going by, women feeling li...

Towards future cases where a prosecutor makes a deal, attempts to renege and then tries to prosecute nonetheless. this is what the supreme court of pennsylvania had to grapple with and they decided that the deal was the deal. >> brynn, i just want to remind people of the amount of accusers who came forward. we have a picture of some of the accusers. we interviewed, i personally interviewed many of these women, and it was incredibly painful and emotional for them to come forward after all of this...

These cases, these men were incredibly powerful at the height of their popularity, you have to understand for a woman especially someone in up-and-coming ad actress or nobody by hollywood standards is going to find it impossible to stand up against one of these men in that situation. that is the reality. no one is going to believe them, they will feel threatened. so how do we remedy that part of the situation? yes, we need to abide by the law, i will never stray from that, but do we need to chan...

They were celebrating this decision. as you pointed out in your lead-in, there are a lot of women out there who accuse bill cosby of some form of sexual assault and its a range of things from groping all the way to rape. a lot of those women were not able to bring or did not choose to bring criminal charges against bill cosby and the statute of limitations simply expired, and they looked at this case, andrea constands accusation and charges and the conviction as their justice and in their minds ...

Justice in both of those cases, but this is not the way that the criminal justice system works. one or two supporting witnesses is what has been established in the precedent in case law, but to bring in five was so unfair, you know, the defense has repair about all five of them towards examining all five of them and contradictory evidence against all five, at some point the weight just got the defense and crushed the defense. by bill cosby, and tell you, you can spit on him and do all you want, ...

Ridiculous comment from bill cosby invoking that this is good for black america. so, you have to be ignoring the tens thousands nonwealthy black men. and if i were any black men, i would be condemning that for reason that it was based on class and poverty, and not what he is. he is wealthy and famous first and then black second. i want to say, geoff, more hope than others might see here in terms of the prosecutability of bill cosby moving forward, and yes, the statute of limitations have run in ...

Will make another run at the civil option? >> that is a great question, and there is a special limitation for the civil part as well, but pending legislation, there is an equivalent to the child victims act which basically listed the statute of limitations for individuals who were sexually abused as children. there is a pendulum for adults that were abused, if that passes, youre exactly right, all of these individuals who mightve been part from bringing their case criminally can seek restitution...

Chris. i have a new brookings report out that goes through the kinds of arguments that the defense lawyers are undoubtedly making about why this case is going to be so difficult, how the statutes of limitations have run. in company has ever been criminally charged for these kinds of fringe benefits before and the harm to the company but from all appearances, it looks like there is a tax fraud case here. they gave these cars, apartments, as private school tuition, those are supposed to be treated...

Would be up to the podium. lets bring in the dade county mayor. >> good evening, everybody. were approaching the end of day three. today, i want to report that we did make some progress with the fire and the smoke that we reported earlier was hampering our search and rescue operation and we were able to continue searching with fewer limitations, so we swept the pile, we swept our -- the pile with the k-9s. we tried to minimize the heavy equipment and we continue to use sonar and cameras. and so,...