Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial jury begins Thursday after being presented with a completely different explanation on Wednesday about what happened to a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles about 47 years ago. It’s a schedule.
In closing arguments, Judy Hughes’ lawyer Nathan Goldberg, who filed the proceedings, said Cosby plans to use teenagers in isolation, and she paid a painful price. I told the jury. Life of anxiety and depression. That anxiety exacerbated when many other women had previously appeared in accusations against Mr. Cosby in 2014 and diminished in 2018 when he was found guilty of a criminal case in Pennsylvania. Said.
“His actions included plans and intentions to take her to vulnerable places,” he told the jury to decide on a civil proceeding in Santa Monica, California. I am responsible. Four years of misery, what is it worth to a person? “
Goldberg said the jury should take Hughes to the mansion and carefully consider the testimony of his then-friend, Donna Samuelson, who supported Hughes’ testimony. He also pointed out the testimony of two other women, created by Hughes’ team as witnesses and explaining his encounter with Cosby in 1975. Mr. Hughes said she met him.
Goldberg said Cosby’s defense implies that all four women are lying “on it.”
Sexual assault against Bill Cosby
After the 2018 criminal conviction for Bill Cosby’s sexual assault was overturned, the first civil lawsuit was filed accusing him of sexual misconduct.
But in his closing remarks, Cosby’s lawyer said Hughes was an unreliable witness, rather than a victim. He will file a proceeding in 2014.
“Frankly, I don’t think I can believe anything Hughes says,” said Jennifer Bonjan, Cosby’s lawyer.
She could not prove that Mr. Hughes had sexual contact, and her lawyer had the burden of proof that the pain she reported suffering in later years was caused by her encounter with Mr. Cosby. Said he did not play.
Cosby denied sexual contact with Hughes. His lawyer said it would have been accepted if Mr. Cosby had been attracted to her, as her two friends looked like adult women.
“She can’t prove that there was a causal link between this incident and the alleged trauma 40 years later,” Bonjan said.
“If she says, I’m not going to trust her just because we live in an era when it must be true,” she added. “There is no evidence.”
Hughes and Samuelson, now 64, said Cosby, now 84, was invited to the mansion with him a few days after meeting him on a movie set he met in a not-so-distant park. .. Their house.
Mr. Hughes said Mr. Cosby invited them to his tennis club and gave them alcohol at the house where he was staying. She then said he asked them to take him to the mansion in their car, where he tried to put his hand on her pants in an isolated bedroom and then I forced her to have sex with him.
When the deliberations begin, the jury is asked to make a verdict based on the superiority of the evidence. Unlike the unanimous requirements of criminal cases, only nine out of twelve must agree to a finding to reach a verdict.
Cosby’s lawyer emphasized the arcade game “Donkey Kong,” as it was in the early days of the trial, to emphasize the inconsistencies in testimony to clients. Samuelson played in the mansion a few years later. Samuelson said he just made a mistake in his name.
“This is not a game,” Goldberg said in a closing remark.
“We have clients,” he continued. “I was sexually abused by Bill Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in 1975. Now it’s my turn to hold him accountable. Justice doesn’t know how much time has passed. What’s right and what’s I know if I’m wrong. “