PLEASE RESCUE ME AND MY VOICE.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
IVE BEEN THERE, ANDREA.
THIS IS A VERY BIG DEAL, A HUGE
DEAL, A BREAKTHROUGH AS FAR AS
COSBYS APPEALS ARE CONCERNED
AND IN MY READING OF THE CASE
AND I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR, WE
JUST GOT IT, THE ENTIRE OPINION
RUNS OVER 70 PAGES AND WERE
STILL DIGESTING IT IN THE
NEWSROOM BUT IT WOULD APPEAR TO
SET HIM FREE.
HE WILL BE RELEASED FROM PRISON
AND APPEAR TO ACCEPT SOME OF THE
APPEALS WINDING THROUGH THE
COURTS FOR MANY YEARS NOW AND
THAT HIS DEFENSE LAWYERS HAD
OFTEN MADE THAT THERE WERE
ASPECTS OF THE TRIAL THEY ARGUED
WERE UNUSUAL, THAT BROUGHT IN
INFORMATION AND ALLEGATIONS THAT
WERE NOT DIRECTLY JERMAINE OR
RELEVANT TO THE CHARGES HE WAS
CONVICTED OF AND AT THE TIME
THAT WAS CONSIDERED OKAY,
ALLOWED BY THE JUDGES BASED ON
DIFFERENT DOCTRINES INCLUDING
THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE OTHER
ALLEGATIONS AND THE CHARGES HE
WAS CONVICTED OF.
HERE YOU HAVE THE SUPREME
COURT -- I THINK THE BIG
QUESTIONS THE VIEWERS MAY HAVE
IS THIS OVER, IS THIS THE END?
IT WOULD APPEAR TO BE THE END
BECAUSE THIS IS THE HIGHEST
COURT IN THE STATE.
>> NOW HE HAD SERVED TWO YEARS
AND UP FOR PAROLE IN MAY.
IT WAS A TEN-YEAR SENTENCE AND
ACCORDING TO SOME OF THE REPORTS
FROM THE AP IM SEEING, I KNOW
YOU HAVENT HAD A CHANCE TO GO
THROUGH THIS AND NEITHER HAVE I,
THAT PART OF THIS OVERTURNING OF
THE CONVICTION WAS BASED ON A
PRIOR AGREEMENT HE HAD WITH
PROSECUTORS WHICH SAID THAT HE
COULD NOT HAVE EVEN BEEN CHARGED
IN THE CASE.
RECALL THIS WAS HIS SECOND TRIAL
AFTER A MISTRIAL.
THAT CONVICTION CAME AFTER, YOU
KNOW, THE SECOND ATTEMPT TO
CONVICT HIM.
>> THE APPEALS HAVE BEEN WINDING
THROUGH THE COURTS ON TWO MAJOR
ISSUES, THAT ISSUE WHICH WAS AN
ALLEGED PRIOR AGREEMENT WITH MR.
CASTER WHO WAS THE PREVIOUS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND THEN THE
ISSUES OF WHAT ELSE WAS BROUGHT
INTO THE CASE.
ITS REALLY STRIKING BECAUSE
THIS WAS CONSIDERED AT THE TIME
BY MANY WHO FOLLOW THESE KIND OF
CASES OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AS A
KIND OF A BREAKTHROUGH CASE
WHERE THINGS THAT HAD FALLEN BY
THE WAYSIDE, THAT ORIGINAL
AGREEMENT YOU MENTIONED, WAS
CONTROVERSIAL FOR MANY REASONS
BUT WAS CONSIDERED AT THE TIME
THE KIND OF LENIENCE OR DEALS
THAT ARE STRUCK IN THESE CASES.
THIS CONVICTION WAS CONSIDERED A
BREAKTHROUGH.
FOR PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED THIS
CASE OR SAW IT AS A LEGAL
BREAKTHROUGH FOR THE ALLEGED
VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS, THIS IS
AN INCREDIBLE BLOW HERE FROM THE
COURT.
>> AND AGAIN, THAT DISTRICT
ATTORNEY, THE FORMER PROSECUTOR,
WHICH -- WHO HAD BEEN
CONTROVERSIAL FOR BEING TOO
LENIENT AND LETTING HIM OFF WHEN
IT FINALLY GOT TRIED FOR THE
SECOND TIME THE VICTIM, ANDREA,
HAD BEEN AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY A
BELOVED FIGURE, HAD GONE TO
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY AND A TRUSTEE
I BELIEVE AT THE TIME, VERY
ACTIVE, YOU KNOW, ALUMNI, AND
VERY ACTIVE IN THE PHILADELPHIA
AND PENNSYLVANIA AREA, SO HIS
INFLU FLUS WHEN ON THAT
MONTGOMERY PROSECUTOR
POTENTIALLY HAD BEEN AT ISSUES.
THESE WERE ADJUDICATED AT THE
LOWER COURT LEVELS I BELIEVE
BEFORE THE TRIAL SDMOOM.
>> EXACTLY.
THIS IS A COMPLEX WHAT LAWYERS
CALL A PROCEDURAL HISTORY, BUT
TO THE POINT YOU RAISED, IM
GOING TO READ BRIEFLY FROM THE
RULING WHERE THE COURT SAYS WE
HAVE DETERMINED COSBY, QUOTE, IN
FACT, RELIED UPON D.A. CASTORS
DECISION, WHAT YOU AND I ARE
DISCUSSING, THE FACT THAT THE
PRIOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY CASTOR,
HAD APPARENTLY MADE THIS
AGREEMENT THAT THIS COURT FINDS
TO BE VALID, THEY SAY, QUOTE, WE
CONCLUDE COSBYS RELIANCE WAS
REASONABLE AND IT WAS REASONABLE
FOR D.A. CASTOR TO EXPECT COSBY
TO RELY.
THE RECORD ESTABLISHES, THE
COURTS VIEW OF THE RECORD OF
THE FACTUAL HISTORY, THAT DENIES
COSBY OF HIS FIFTH AMENDMENT
RIGHT, D.A. CASTORS INTENDED
RESULT AND REFER TO THE
CONTROVERSY AS YOU SAY, ILL TRY
TO TRANSLATE INTO ENGLISH,
WHATEVER YOU THINK OF WHAT
HAPPENED, WHATEVER YOU THINK OF
MR. COSBY AS A DEFENDANT, THAT
THE GOVERNMENT, IN THIS CASE THE
DISTRICT ATTORNEY, DID EXTEND
HIM THIS POSITION AND HE RELIED
ON IT AN THAT WAS THE REASON
THEY WOULD BE VACATING HIS
CONVICTION.
>> TO RE-EMPHASIZE THAT DOES NOT
MEAN THAT WHAT HE WAS CONVICTED
OF DID NOT HAPPEN, THAT ANDREAS
COMPLAINTS WERE NOT REAL.
IT MEANS THERE WAS THIS PRIOR
AGREEMENT THAT HE RELIED ON AND