A Pennsylvania appeals court upheld Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction and rejected his argument that the case was wrongly decided against him.
The comedian's legal team filed an extensive appeal of Cosby's conviction in June. The appeal argued the trial court ruled incorrectly in eight decisions, including by allowing five"prior bad acts" witnesses to testify and by reading the jury excerpts from Cosby's civil deposition in which he says he got Quaaludes to give to women.On Tuesday, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania reviewed each of the eight decisions and rejected Cosby's appeal in each instance.
Read MoreThe long, winding path to Bill Cosby's guilty verdictAlthough the assault charges dealt only with Constand, Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill allowed five other women to testify that Cosby had incapacitated and assaulted them in other incidents. These witnesses, including supermodel Janice Dickinson, are known as"prior bad acts" witnesses. Prosecutors said this testimony helped show Cosby had a pattern in his assaults.
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