He could face up to 30 years in prison.
Less than two days into their deliberation, a Pennsylvania jury has found Bill Cosby guilty of all three charges laid against him.
The trial was dealing with an incident from 2004, in which Cosby was accused of a sexual abuse incident in his home in Pennsylvania.
The victim told the court that Cosby had drugged and sexually assaulted her, but Cosby claimed that the two had a consensual relationship.
Cosby’s lead attorney pleaded with the jury not to make a scapegoat of Cosby in the wake of the #MeToo movement, stating that the case was based on “shallow nonsense. Because that’s what our country is full of at the moment.”
Assistant district attorney Kristen Feden responded to the seven men and five women in the jury, claiming that Cosby was not the man that the world knew him to be from his TV shows and movies: “He utilized that image and cloaked it around himself, so he could gain the trust of young, unsuspecting women to sexually assault them and strip their ability to say no.”
According to The Guardian, the 80-year-old comedian could be facing anywhere between 15 and 30 years in prison following the guilty verdict.
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