A Los Angeles court says Bill Cosby must come clean by providing the plaintiff in a historic sex abuse lawsuit his sworn deposition ASAP.
As with similar pending litigation, Team Cosby has been striving to prevent their accused serial rapist from supplying the actual rope that will eventually hang him -- his own testimony.
Cosby’s already shot himself in the foot a decade ago though, via a prior legal deposition that was recently unsealed in which he admitted to obtaining sedatives to use on young women he intended to have sex with.
The release of those documents served as the proverbial nail in the coffin for the embattled entertainer, wiping out any support he had maintained as the sex scandal kept growing like a cancer.
His newest setback was delivered on Wednesday, when a judge for LA’s Superior Court directed Cosby to promptly submit to alleged victim Judy Huth’s questioning under oath.
As with about four dozen other now-mature women, 50-something Huth asserts the disgraced comedian doped and molested her when she was just a teen, charges which the defendant’s attorneys have unwisely characterized as “defamatory.”
Those current court proceedings concern only a civil action though, similar to the one in 2005 that Cosby ultimately and quietly settled for an undisclosed sum; although the grievous subject matter in that 10-year-old case was brought to light this year by the publication of his deposition.
Bill Cosby has never actually faced a criminal trial and, unless more recent sex assault allegations surface, will likely avoid prosecution for any of the offenses women are presently accusing him of, due to the passage of time and the relative statute of limitations.
Both his illustrious career and a carefully crafted legacy are all but dead, however, which at Cosby’s advanced age may be a far worse punishment than being incarcerated.
