Bill Cosby is facing prison time after being convicted of sexual assault — because he refused any plea deal that would’ve marked the creepy comic as a sex offender…
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As earlier reported by
The National ENQUIRER, Cosby first sought and then rejected plea deals while going to trial over charged that he had drugged and sexually assaulted
Andrea Constand in 2004. “Why take a deal?” Cosby told the
New York Post's "Page Six" — adding: “Not when they want me to say that I’m a sex offender. I didn’t do what they said I did.”
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Instead, court insiders revealed to The ENQUIRER,
the once-beloved star had tried to cheat justice by insisting on a no-contest plea to “unwanted attention.” Former Boston prosecutor Wendy Murphy told The ENQUIRER that agreement would've been “a disgraceful deal where he can...skate free without serving a day of prison time or getting any probation.”
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Cosby remains defiant after a jury found him guilty, however. He even compared himself in the Post to beloved freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years while fighting for human rights in South Africa. “I sat in that cell where he lived," said Cosby, “and I saw how he lived...if they send me to that place, then that’s what they will do, and I will have to go there.”
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As earlier reported by
The National ENQUIRER, Cosby first sought and then rejected plea deals while going to trial over charged that he had drugged and sexually assaulted
Andrea Constand in 2004. “Why take a deal?” Cosby told the
New York Post's "Page Six" — adding: “Not when they want me to say that I’m a sex offender. I didn’t do what they said I did.”
Instead, court insiders revealed to The ENQUIRER,
the once-beloved star had tried to cheat justice by insisting on a no-contest plea to “unwanted attention.” Former Boston prosecutor Wendy Murphy told The ENQUIRER that agreement would've been “a disgraceful deal where he can...skate free without serving a day of prison time or getting any probation.”
Cosby remains defiant after a jury found him guilty, however. He even compared himself in the Post to beloved freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years while fighting for human rights in South Africa. “I sat in that cell where he lived," said Cosby, “and I saw how he lived...if they send me to that place, then that’s what they will do, and I will have to go there.”