Prosecutor: Cosby wants special treatment, case should go on

ByMARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press AP logo
Thursday, January 21, 2016
VIDEO: DA responds to Cosby request
On the left is the booking photograph released by the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office. On the right, Bill Cosby arrives at court in Elkins Park.

PHILADELPHIA -- Prosecutors pursuing sex-assault charges against Bill Cosby say the entertainer is seeking "special treatment" by trying to have the case thrown out even before the first evidence hearing.

In a response Wednesday to Cosby's motion to dismiss the case, Montgomery County prosecutors say that there was never a valid agreement not to prosecute him.

District Attorney Kevin Steele says he can prove that Cosby drugged and molested a woman at his Cheltenham home in 2004. He is citing new evidence from a deposition Cosby gave in the woman's civil lawsuit and similar accusations from dozens of other women.

Common Pleas Judge Steven O'Neill has scheduled a Feb. 2 hearing on the motion to dismiss the case. Cosby has not yet entered a plea. He has called the encounter consensual.