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Wednesday, June 7, 2017 Bill Cosby, center, returns to the courtroom after a break in his sexual assault trial inside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Monday, June 5, 2017.
Bill Cosby goes on trial, his legacy and freedom at stake
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NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby went on trial Monday on charges he drugged and sexually assaulted a woman more than a decade ago, with prosecutors immediately introducing evidence the 79-year-old TV star once known as America’s Dad had done it before to someone else. The prosecution’s opening witness was not the person Cosby is charged with abusing, but another woman, who broke down in tears as she testified that the comedian violated her in the mid-1990s at a hotel bungalow in Los Angeles. Cosby is on trial on charges he assaulted Andrea Constand, a former employee of Temple University’s basketball program, at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004. His good-guy reputation already in ruins, he could get 10 years in prison if convicted. Prosecutor Kristen Feden, in her opening statement, noted the “Cosby Show” star previously admitted under oath that he
gave Constand pills and touched her genitals as she lay on his couch. “She couldn’t say no,” Feden said. “She can’t move, she can’t talk. Completely paralyzed. Frozen. Lifeless.” Cosby attorney Brian McMonagle countered by attacking what he said were inconsistencies in Constand’s story, disputed that Constand was incapacitated and made the case
that she and Cosby had a romantic relationship. He said Constand initially told police that she and Cosby did not speak after their 2004 encounter, when, in fact, phone records show the two talked 72 times, with 53 of those calls initiated by Constand. Constand, 44, of the Toronto area, is expected to take the stand this week and tell her story in public for
the first time. The trial’s first witness was Kelly Johnson, who worked for one of Cosby’s agents at the William Morris Agency. Johnson, of Atlanta, described an encounter she said took place in 1996 at the Hotel Bel-Air when she was in her mid-30s. Prosecutors are trying to show Cosby’s treatment of Constand fit a pattern of predatory behavior. They had wanted to call as many as 13 women who say Cosby sexually assaulted them, out of more than 60 accusers in all. But Judge Steven O’Neill, in a victory for Cosby, said the jury could hear only from Constand and Johnson. Johnson testified that Cosby pres-
sured her to take a large white pill that knocked her out, and when she woke up he put lotion on her hand and forced her to touch his genitals. “My dress was pulled up from the bottom, and it was pulled down from the top, and my breasts were out,” she said, crying. “And I felt naked.” Cosby’s lawyer argued that Johnson was seeking a payout from the TV star. McMonagle said Johnson mixed up the years and other details of her encounters with Cosby, and he grilled her about why she never said anything when she left William Morris. She came forward in 2015 at a news conference with celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred. (ap)
Underwood puts off birthday present for Preds’ Fisher NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Mike Fisher’s birthday present will have to wait. Country music superstar Carrie Underwood said she didn’t get Fisher — her husband and the Nashville Predators’ captain — anything for his 37th birthday on Monday. She’s hoping Fisher can
celebrate his birthday on another day — with the Stanley Cup if the Predators beat Pittsburgh for the championship. “I didn’t get him anything,” Underwood said in an interview on NBC with the two teams tied at 1 following the first period. “I’m
terrible.” Underwood said when she performs, there’s no anxiety. When she watches her husband play hockey, she feels much differently. “I’m way more nervous than I ever would be for myself,” she said. (ap)
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Kuwait seeks to mediate Arab crisis over Qatar
DOHA - Kuwait’s ruler will travel to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, hoping to heal a damaging rift between Qatar and powerful Arab states over the former’ s alleged support of Islamist militants and of political and religious rival Iran.
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Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber al-Sabah will meet with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and seek to resolve the worst infighting among the Arab world’s strongest and richest powers in decades. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed relations with Qatar and closed their airspace to commercial flights on Monday. In a sign of the potential consequences for the Qatari economy, a number of banks in the region began stepping back from busi-
ness dealings with Qatar. Saudi Arabia’s central bank advised banks in the kingdom not to trade with Qatari banks in Qatari riyals, sources said. Oil prices also fell on concern that the rift would undermine efforts by OPEC to tighten production. Qatar and the other Arab states fell out over Doha’s alleged support for Islamist militants and Shi’ite Iran -- charges Qatar has called baseless. It said, however, that it would
not retaliate and hoped Kuwait would help resolve the dispute. Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman alThani told Qatar-based Al Jazeera TV that Qatar wants to give Kuwait’s ruler the ability to “proceed and communicate with the parties to the crisis and to try to contain the issue”. Qatar’s leader, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, spoke by telephone overnight with his counterpart in Kuwait and, in order to allow Kuwait to mediate, decided
to put off a planned speech to the nation, the foreign minister said. Qatar has for years parlayed its enormous gas wealth and media influence into a broad influence in the region. But Gulf Arab neighbours and Egypt have long been irked by its maverick stances and support for the Muslim Brotherhood, which they regard as a political enemy. Yemen, Libya’s eastern-based government and the Maldives close allies of Qatar’s adversaries in the spat - also cut ties. The United States, Russia, France, Iran and Turkey have all called for the row to be resolved through dialogue.
BANKS SHUN QATAR, FLIGHTS DIVERTED Tightening pressure, Saudi Arabia’s aviation authority revoked the license of Qatar Airways and ordered its offices to be closed within 48 hours, a day after the kingdom, the UAE and Bahrain closed their airspace to Qatari commercial flights. Continued to page 6
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