https://twitter.com/tom_winter/status/1410281608851111939?s=21The PA Supreme Court says it was an "unconstitutional 'coercive bait-and-switch" when prosecutors initially said he wouldn't be charged so he could testify in a civil case only to then turn around and use evidence in the civil case against him in two criminal trials.
It is important to note that the court did not address Cosby's conduct but rather the "vast" violation of due process for Cosby in the legal system.
Not Chris Morris wrote:Both Ampleforth and Downside prioritised the monks and their own reputations over the protection of children, manoeuvring monks away from the schools in order to avoid scandal. The known risk of child sexual abuse was thus transferred to other locations. Those who received them would sometimes not be adequately informed of the risk, with the result that constraints on access to children were not fully enforced.
Not Midsomer Murders wrote:Recently, possibly in 2012 when he was headmaster, Dom Leo Maidlow Davies spent some time removing files from the basement of a Downside building. He made several trips with a wheelbarrow loaded with files to the edge of the estate and made a bonfire of them.
Moot_Geeza wrote:No opinion on whether he might be innocent or not, I love his music but I've never been fond of him. If it is bullshit the weeks in question are an odd choice given the tour and the fact that he had a documentary film crew following him around for a chunk of it. Which kinda does make me wonder if there is some truth in it, because surely if you were going to concoct a false accusation after half a century you'd pick different dates.
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