On the 24th September Bill Cosby will be back in court for sentencing on sexual assault charges after being found guilty by a jury in April of three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004.
Andrea accused Cosby of drugging and then raping her. At the time the former Canadian basket ball player was the operations manager for the women’s basket ball programme at Temple University in Philadelphia,Cosby’s alma mater. When she first met Cosby she was 29 years old and stated during the court trial that he befriended her before inviting her to his home where the assault took place. She filed a civil lawsuit against him in 2005, which was later unsealed and made public for the current trial. The civil lawsuit, at the time, was settled out of court.
Now, with only a couple of months to go before sentencing, Cosby has fired his entire legal team. His spokesperson, Andrew Wyatt, has offically informed the media that Cosby has parted ways with lawyer Tom Mesereau and the rest of his defence team and that they have been replaced by Joseph P Green. There was no reason given for the change.
Cosby could face up to thirty years behind bars, ten years for each count of assault when sentencing is delivered in September
