NAME.
>> STEPHANIE GOSK REPORTING
THERE.
JOINING US NOW CHARLES COLEMAN.
GREAT TO SEE YOU THIS MORNING.
SO KRISTIN, WHO WE JUST SAW IN
THE PIECE, THE PROSECUTOR IN THE
COSBY CASE WAS WITH US IN OUR
LAST HOUR SHE SAID NOT ONLY IS
THIS ORAL AGREEMENT FROM 2005
NOT GROUNDS FOR THE SUPREME
COURT TO OVER TURN THE
CONVICTION SHE DOESNT HAVE ANY
EVIDENCE THAT IT HAPPENED.
WHATS YOUR TAKE?
>> I THINK THE FIRST THING
PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS
IS NOT A COMMENTARY ON COSBYS
BUILT OR INNOCENCE.
HE WAS NOT EXONERATED.
THIS IS A FURNGS OF WHAT HAPPENS
WHEN YOU HAVE POLITICAL
MOTIVATIONS MIXED WITH THE
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
SO COSBY AND HIS ATTORNEYS MAKE
A DEAL WITH A FORMER PROSECUTEOR
IF THEY COOPERATE WITH A CIVIL
TRIAL THEY WILL NOT BE CHARGED
IN THIS COURT.
WHEN YOU HAVE THESE AGREEMENTS
ABOUT IMMUNITY, THE QUESTION
BECOMES ARE FUTURE PROSECUTORS
LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR UP
UPHOLDING THEM IN THE FUTURE
AFTER THE PROSECUTORS WHO MADE
THOSE DEALS ARE GONE AND LEFT
OFFICE, AND THE SUPREME COURT IN
PENNSYLVANIA ULTIMATELY RULED
YES, THEY ARE.
PART OF WHAT HAPPENED HERE, IS
IF THE REASONING WAS, THE
INFORMATION AND EVIDENCE USED TO
CONVICT BILL COSBY AT TRIAL
WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE
BUT FOR HIS PARTICIPATION AND
TESTIMONY AT THE DEPOSITION.
SO WHEN THE SUPREME COURT
DECIDED TO THROW THAT OUT WHAT
IT SAID WAS YOU WOULD NOT HAVE
HAD THE CASE YOU HAD IN ADDITION
TO ADDITIONAL WITNESSES WHICH
THEY DEEMED UNNECESSARY AND THEY
DEEMED HIGHLY PREJUDICIAL
AGAINST MR. COSBY BEING ABLE TO
TESTIFY AT TRIAL.
>> WE HAVE A HAND SHAKE DEAL
HERE THAT THE SUPREME COURT USED
TO OVERTURN THE CONVICTION.
HOW UNUSUAL ARE THOSE IN YOUR
EXPERIENCE, AND WOULDNT THEY BE
MEMORIALIZED SOMEHOW?
WOULD THERE BE A SIGNATURE THAT
THE SUPREME COURT COULD SAY
HERES WHY WERE DOING IT.
WE UNDERSTAND THERES A HAND
SHAKE DEAL AND WERE SETTING HIM
FREE.
>> AS A FORMER PROSECUTOR I CAN
TELL YOU THESE SORTS OF INFORMAL
AGREEMENTS DONT HAPPEN TO THE
DEGREE WERE SEEING IN THE COSBY
CASE.
ONE THING HIS ATTORNEYS HELD
THEIR HATS ON IN THE COURT OF
APPEALS WAS THERE WAS A MEMO
FROM THE FORMER PROSECUTOR TO
THE CURRENT PROSECUTOR AND
FOLLOWING SUCCESSORS, BASICALLY
OUTLINING THE CONTOURS OF THE
DEAL SAYING THIS HAPPENED AND
THAT WAS OFFICIAL.
AND THAT MEMO, ALTHOUGH IT WAS
SECRET AND PRIVATE WAS SOMETHING
PRESENTED AND INCLUDED IN
EVIDENCE AS PART OF THEIR
APPEAL.
BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION IT
IS UNUSUAL THAT YOU WOULD HAVE
THIS BACK ROOM CONVERSATION THAT
WASNT MEMORIALIZED IN ANY WAY
FORMALLY BETWEEN THE PARTS IN A
WAY THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED THEM
TO PRESENT THIS EARLIER.
>> IS THIS THE END OF THE STORY?
ITS GONE TO THE PENNSYLVANIA
SUPREME COURT, THEY SAID HE CAN
WALK A FREE MAN.
WE HEARD FROM MANY OF THE
VICTIMS DEVASTATING BY THOSE
IMAGES OF BILL COSBY WALKING
FREE IS HE FREE FOR THE REST OF
HIS LIFE?
>> HE IS.
AND THIS IS AN UNFORTUNATE AND
TRAGIC END TO THE STORY.
ON ONE HAND HUH THE POLITICAL
MOTIVATIONS OF A PROSECUTOR IN
MONTGOMERY COUNTY WHO RAN ON A
PLATFORM OF GETTING BILL COSBY
AND MAKING SURE THAT HE WAS
BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.
AND THEN CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF
THIS SAGA ARE THE UNFORTUNATE
STORIES OF THESE SEXUAL ASSAULT
VICTIMS WHO ALL THEY WANTED WAS
THEIR DAY IN COURT AND JUSTICE
AND RIGHTFULLY SO MANY FEEL
DENIED BY THAT WITH THE TURN OF
EVENTS WEVE SEEN.