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Cosby citing systemic racism as he fights assault conviction

by Associated Press
| July 8, 2020 12:03 AM

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a nearly empty Philadelphia courtroom in June 2015, a lawyer for Bill Cosby implored a federal judge to keep the comedian’s testimony in an old sexual battery lawsuit under wraps. It was sensitive. Embarrassing. Private.

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