to furnish self-incriminating testimony.whether Cosby reasonably relied upon Castor’s public announcement that he would not be prosecuted in exchange of relinquishing his constitutional right to furnish self-incriminating testimony.
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Show me the “promise” Castor made.
Lol, huh? I’m not trying to save Castor’s legacy, since he is working as hard as possible to keep a rapist out of jail, which I tend to view as a bad thing.
The idea that prosecutors should be bound by their assurances is a good one. No assurance was made in this case, at least not as a matter of any record whatsoever. Castor declined to prosecute at the time because, according to him, he thought there was insufficient evidence. That’s not an “assurance” to never…
What indispensable element of a “binding agreement” do you think is missing here?
When some dumbfuck says #metoo has gone too far, present this fuckshit to them.
No one “agreed” not to prosecute Cosby. Read the opinion. Castor repeatedly and expressly disclaims that any agreement was ever made with Cosby whereby Castor would not prosecute Cosby and in exchange Cosby would then testify in Constand’s case (such an agreement would be ridiculous because there wouldn’t be any…
Reading the opinion, and it’s even worse than I expected. One of the key takeaways is that the prosecutor who made the “agreement” expressly disclaims there was any agreement to never prosecute Cosby. Also, the statement he released at the time he declined to prosecute Cosby also expressly said “District Attorney…
Wasn’t that scene supposed to be a fantasy that Cliff dreamed up to think himself a badass when he really wasn’t?
That’s a completely different thing though. The quid pro quo you’re talking about involves prosecutors getting a benefit, a guaranteed conviction without having to go through the cost and uncertainty of a trial, in exchange for giving the defendant a benefit, dropping and/or reducing some of the charges, avoiding the…
Enforceable based on what? It was a secret, unwritten agreement. Just because Bruce Castor was DA at the time doesn’t mean everything he did binds the prosecutor’s office FOR ALL TIME. That’s not how binding agreements work.
No, it was a benefit to Cosby. If a party pleads the fifth to avoid answering questions in a civil proceeding, their opponent in that civil proceeding would typically be entitled to seek an adverse inference as a result, i.e. that the finder of fact is entitled to assume that the party pleading the fifth is doing so…
If anybody ever rapes anyone I love, the body will never be found and nothing will be able to link him to me.
And he’s been released. :-/
There was never even an agreement in writing. It was an agreement between BRUCE CASTOR and Bill Cosby’s lawyers, all to help Bill Cosby in his civil trial. It’s absurd that an informal, unwritten agreement that is made solely for the purpose of helping someone accused of a serious crime avoid negative consequences in…
Boy, if you ever wanted an example of how the criminal “justice” system serves to protect the powerful, this is it. A prosecutor makes a basically secret, informal agreement with a powerful man to help the powerful man in a civil trial regarding the same conduct, and that secret, informal agreement then forms the…
If anybody rapes me, I’ll kill them.
The entire judicial system of pennsylvania can eat shit. Fuck this state.
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I always thought it was odd he lived in that dream house, with a beautiful wife, a son who owns a factory and lobster for dinner.. Meanwhile I live in a single room over a bowling alley and under another bowling alley.