Bill Cosby is escorted out of the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, Sept. 25, 2018, in Eagleville, following his sentencing to three-to-10-year prison sentence for sexual assault. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
Bill Cosby’s latest attempt to appeal his prison sentence has failed, as the Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed the judgment against him Tuesday morning.
A three-judge panel of the court said in a 94-page opinion that Cosby’s sentence of three to 10 years’ incarceration should stay in place. Cosby’s case raised unusual questions given the large number of additional accusers, and a purported nonprosecution agreement from when the allegations against him first surfaced. But the appellate court stood by the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas’ decisions on those issues.
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