Judge Rules Jury Can Hear Bill Cosby’s Quaalude Testimony
Posted on April 17, 2018
4-17-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY-
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The jury at Bill Cosby‘s sexual assault trial can hear the comedian’s decade-old testimony about giving quaaludes to women before sex, a judge ruled Tuesday, handing the prosecution a key victory in its effort to portray him as a serial predator.
Cosby, 80, is on trial on charges he drugged and molested former Temple University basketball administrator Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004. The testimony was also included at his first trial, which ended with a hung jury last year.
Testifying under oath in 2005 as part of Constand’s civil suit against him, Cosby said he had obtained several prescriptions for quaaludes from his doctor in Los Angeles in the 1970s, ostensibly for a sore back. The long-married comedian said he never took the drug, instead giving it to women he wanted to have sex with “the same as a person would say, ‘Have a drink.’”
“Quaaludes happen to be the drug that kids, young people were using to party with, and there were times when I wanted to have them just in case,” Cosby testified.
The former TV star ultimately settled Constand’s lawsuit for nearly $3.4 million.
Cosby’s lawyers argued the testimony is irrelevant to his retrial because there is no evidence he gave Constand the drug.
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