Bill Cosby was found liable for sexually assaulting Judy Huth at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was 16.
at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was just 16 years old.
The ruling was delivered in a Santa Monica courtroom on Tuesday after a two-week-long trial and deliberations that began last Thursday, perCosby was not present as the verdict was read, but his legal team was in attendance. The disgraced comedian was ordered to pay Huth $500,000 in compensatory damages, but the jury declined to award her punitive damages.
Though the statute of limitations for Huth to pursue a criminal case had expired, under California law, victims of underage sexual abuse are still allowed to file civil lawsuits decades after the alleged incident took place. This latest ruling against Cosby might also offer some sense of justice for the many other women who have accused him of similar forms of abuse, especially after his criminal conviction in theby the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on due process grounds.
In overturning that conviction, the court determined that Cosby had been deprived of his Fifth Amendment rights when his statements from a previous deposition, in which he admitted to giving quaaludes to women whom he wanted to have sex with, were used against him, as a prosecutor had previously promised that he wouldn’t be charged in exchange for sitting for the deposition. The
that Cosby had been subjected to “an unconstitutional ‘coercive bait-and-switch’” and “a due process violation.”
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