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PHILADELPHIA It was late morning in Las Vegas when a caretaker told Autumn Burns that Bill Cosby was about to be released from prison. Assuming it had to be a joke, Burns responded: “Oh, come on.”
Then the news flickered on, and Burns, who is 74 and blind, listened closely. The anchor confirmed it. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court had overturned the sexual assault conviction of Cosby, the comedian she accused of raping her in the 1970s when she was a 24-year-old game starter at a casino.
“Stunned. No words. Just sick to my stomach,” Janice Baker-Kinney said.
Published June 30, 2021 •
Updated 3 hours ago
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Sexual assault accusers said they are “stunned” and devastated after Pennsylvania’s highest court vacated Bill Cosby’s conviction Wednesday, allowing him to walk free after serving two years of his three- to 10-year prison sentence for allegedly drugging and molesting a former basketball coach.
“Stunned. No words. Just sick to my stomach,” Janice Baker-Kinney told NBC News. She is one of more than 60 women who accused the actor of allegations ranging from groping to sexual assault to rape, alleging that Cosby sexually assaulted her in Nevada in 1982.
“Stunned. No words. Just sick to my stomach,” Janice Baker-Kinney said.
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Updated 3 hours ago
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Sexual assault accusers said they are “stunned” and devastated after Pennsylvania’s highest court vacated Bill Cosby’s conviction Wednesday, allowing him to walk free after serving two years of his three- to 10-year prison sentence for allegedly drugging and molesting a former basketball coach.
“Stunned. No words. Just sick to my stomach,” Janice Baker-Kinney told NBC News. She is one of more than 60 women who accused the actor of allegations ranging from groping to sexual assault to rape, alleging that Cosby sexually assaulted her in Nevada in 1982.
Bill Cosby rape accuser Janice Dickinson is seen moments after disgraced comedian s sexual assault conviction was overturned: Says she is disgusted in PA Supreme Court s decision to free him
Janice Dickinson was seen looking appalled after hearing the news about Bill Cosby s release from prison three years into his 10-year sentence
The attorney for Dickinson, who accused Cosby of sexual assault, released a statement on Twitter saying that she was disgusted by the news
Dickinson, 66, testified in Cosby s 2018 trial and said that he sexually assaulted her in 1982 when she was 27
The disgraced comedian left prison Wednesday after serving less than 3 years for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in Pennsylvania in 2004
Bill Cosby Unlikely to Face Another Criminal Trial, Gloria Allred Says
“The justice system is not perfect, laws are not perfect … but because it’s imperfect isn’t a reason to not participate in it,” the women’s rights attorney says
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Attorney Gloria Allred, who represented 33 of Bill Cosby’s victims, discussed a Pennsylvania court’s decision to overturn the actor’s sexual assault conviction Wednesday, saying he was not likely to face another criminal trial but that a civil case against him in Los Angeles would continue.
Allred opened a news conference by stating that the state’s Supreme Court decision “must be devastating” for Cosby’s accusers and that regardless of the case’s recent development, Cosby isn’t absolved of any of his actions.