*Bill Cosby has lost yet another effort to have criminal sex-assault charges thrown out on appeal in Pennsylvania.
The comedian’s lawyers tried to argue that accuser Andrea Constand should’ve testified at a preliminary hearing last May so they could confront his accuser. Rather than testifying herself, a detective read Constand’s decade-old statements from during the preliminary hearing.
But the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled Wednesday that she did not have to testify in person.
The court issued a one-sentence order denying Cosby’s request to either have the charges against him dismissed or get a new preliminary hearing where Constand would have to testify in person.
Cosby’s legal team had no immediate response to the decision while a spokeswoman for Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said they were “obviously pleased” with it.
Cosby, 79, is charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting Constand, now 43, at his Elkins Park, Pennsylvania mansion in January 2004.
He has denied similar allegations from more than 50 other women.
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