As we all know, Bill Cosby
is super guilty. By which we mean that he was found guilty by a jury of his
peers for multiple counts in the 2004 sexual assault against Andrea Constand.
He is due to be sentenced
in three months ... but he has fired his entire high-profile legal team.
What is he thinking?
Bill Cosby still has three
months to go before he is sentenced for all three counts of aggrivated indecent
assault of Andrea Constand.
He remains under house
arrest until that time.
It is quite the surprise to
learn that he has dismissed his press-friendly attorney, Tom Mesereau, whom he
brought on board to defend him in 2017.
Mesereau is famous for
having defended Michael Jackson, but his courtroom strategy wasn't enough to
hoodwink the jury.
Perhaps Cosby is unwilling
to continue paying the man who failed to get him an acquittal.
Cosby isn't going to
represent himself at his two-day sentencing hearing, which is scheduled for
September 24-25.
He has instead hired
Pennsylvania attorney Joseph P. Green Jr. to fulfill that role.
Green is an established
lawyer, but not nearly as high-profile as Cosby's previous representation.
It may be that Cosby simply
wants an attorney but is no longer willing to shell out big bucks for high
priced representation for another three months -- not if he doesn't believe
that it will change anything at his sentencing.
Some have wondered if he
may be hoping that, by acquiring a new attorney, the date of his sentencing
hearing might be pushed back.
Cosby is 80 years old, and
will be 81 after his July 12 birthday.
Some wonder if, comfortable
while under house arrest, he is pushing to delay his incarceration as long as
possible.
As we said, some find this
move surprising, but it is actually consistent with Cosby's recent history with
attorneys.
In July of 2017, Cosby's
jury deadlocked the first time around.
After that mistrial was
declared, Cosby fired his attorneys Brian McMonagle and Angela Agrusa in order
to hire Mesereau.
As a result, his new trial
date was pushed back from the autumn of 2017 to the spring of 2018.
The #MeToo movement began
later in 2017, making millions of people more aware that yes, sometimes the
people who seem nice on camera are actually sex monsters who've gotten away
with it all for years.
In fact, potential jurors
had months to soak in story after story about famous, seemingly charming men
who terrorized women and used their wealth and influence to cover it up.
In light of that, many
wonder if Cosby wishes that his second trial had been much, much earlier.
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