: Attorneys lock horns during Bill Cosbys civil case, Cosby gives trial a miss #IndiaNEWS #Cinema Los Angeles, June 16 | Comedian-actor Bill Cosbys civil case with regards to sexual molestation of Judy

Attorneys lock horns during Bill Cosbys civil case, Cosby gives trial a miss #IndiaNEWS #Cinema
Los Angeles, June 16 | Comedian-actor Bill Cosbys civil case with regards to sexual molestation of Judy Huth at the Playboy Mansion 47 years ago, saw a major showdown between plaintiffs attorney and defendant attorney.
Judy Huths attorney, Nathan Goldberg urged jurors to hold Cosby financially responsible for sexually molesting a Huth, who was 16-year-old at the time, reports Variety.
Goldberg argued that Cosby should be forced to pay millions of dollars for the assault on Huth, who is now 64. He hasnt paid for what he did. Hes gotten away with it, Goldberg argued. Its your job to hold him accountable.
According to Variety, the 12-person jury is scheduled to begin deliberating on Thursday in Santa Monica Superior Court. Huth filed the suit in 2014, but her case was delayed for several years by Cosbys criminal proceedings. The 84-year-old comedian was freed last year after serving nearly three years in prison, when his conviction was overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
In her closing argument, Cosbys attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, alluded to the slew of other allegations that have been made against him. But she urged the jurors to set that aside and focus on Huths credibility, arguing that Huth simply had failed to prove her case. Cosby did not attend the trial, and jurors saw only a brief glimpse of him in portions of a videotaped deposition.
Variety further states that the case instead focused on the accounts of Huth, her friend Donna Samuelson, who accompanied her to the mansion, and two supporting witnesses, Marjorie Shapiro and Kimberly Burr, who testified about their own sexual assault allegations against Cosby from the same time period.
Huth and Samuelson testified that Cosby brought them to the mansion after a chance encounter at a park. Huth alleged that Cosby lured her to a bedroom, and then tried to force himself on her. When she resisted, saying she was on her period, he then pulled down his sweatpants and forced her to masturbate him, she testified.
In her argument, Bonjean argued that Huth had shaped her story in hopes of scoring a financial windfall. She also maintained that the plaintiffs had not proven that Cosby knew at the time of the incident that Huth and her friend were underage a key element of the offence.
These are young women that didnt present as children or even young teenagers, Bonjean said, showing photos from the time. They looked like a lot of other young women at the Playboy Mansion.
Goldberg countered that Samuelson had recalled Cosby telling them both at the mansion that if anyone asked, they should say they were both 18 suggesting he knew that they were not. Goldberg also showed the jury a photo of Huth from 1975 in which she appeared quite young, as well as two photos of Cosby with Huth at the mansion.

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