Bill Cosby PHILADELPHIA - In 2016, as Bill Cosby’s legal team prepared for trial in his stunning sexual assault case in Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court quietly heard a death row inmate’s appeal.Lawyers for Charles Hicks questioned whether three women who said he had beaten and choked them in Texas should have testified at his trial in a fourth woman’s death in the Pocono Mountains.Prosecutors hoped to show a pattern of “strikingly similar” conduct, even if only one woman died.
The seven Supreme Court justices issued five separate opinions on the use of the “prior bad act” testimony.MORE: Bill Cosby appears to be smiling in latest mugshotThat may explain why they are hearing Cosby’s appeal of his conviction on Tuesday.In taking the.