{"id":731,"date":"2016-01-01T00:51:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T16:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/01\/bill-cosbys-lawyer-calls-sexual-assault-charges-politically-motivated\/"},"modified":"2016-01-01T00:51:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T16:51:03","slug":"bill-cosbys-lawyer-calls-sexual-assault-charges-politically-motivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/01\/bill-cosbys-lawyer-calls-sexual-assault-charges-politically-motivated\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cosby's lawyer calls sexual assault charges politically motivated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ELKINS PARK, Pa. \u2014 Bill Cosby’s lawyer charged on Thursday that the sexual assault case against the comedian was politically motivated, brought by a newly elected district attorney to make good on a campaign pledge.<\/p>\n

“What we have is not the effectuation of justice. What we have is the fulfillment of a campaign promise,” Monique Pressley said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”<\/p>\n

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See also: The first glimpse of Bill Cosby after the sexual assault charge<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

District Attorney-elect Kevin R. Steele was not immediately available for comment, his office said.<\/p>\n

Cosby, 78, was charged Wednesday<\/a> with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home 12 years ago in a case that could send America’s Dad to prison for up to a decade. He was released on $1 million bail. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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ELKINS PARK, Pa. \u2014 Bill Cosby’s lawyer charged on Thursday that the sexual assault case against the comedian was politically motivated, brought by a newly elected district attorney to make good on a campaign pledge. “What we have is not … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,1,70,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-cosby","category-other","category-us","category-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}