Try, Try Again: Cosby's Retrial Set to Begin Before Montco Jury
The charges against him remain the same, but Bill Cosby's retrial is shaping up to be very different from the first time around.
April 06, 2018 at 01:22 PM
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Bill Cosby, accompanied by Andrew Wyatt, departs after a pretrial hearing in Cosby's sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown on Aug. 22, 2017. Photo: Matt Rourke/AP
Opening arguments in Bill Cosby's criminal retrial are set to begin Monday morning in Montgomery County, marking yet another milestone in the 14-year timeline of the case.
The charges against the comedian are the same—he faces three counts of aggravated indecent assault, for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. And the presiding judge, too, is consistent, despite the defense's recent attempt to have Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Judge Steven T. O'Neill recuse from the case.
But a number of questions remain unanswered in a retrial that is shaping up to be very different from the first time around.
How Will the Lawyering Differ?
Cosby's legal team at his first trial was led by Brian McMonagle, a Philadelphia criminal defense lawyer not unfamiliar with the Montgomery County court or high-profile Pennsylvania defendants, and Angela Agrusa, a civil litigator from California, who has represented Cosby in other cases.
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