Bill Cosby, What the Frick?

Here is one, it does say he was laughing.

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/25/651065803/bill-cosby-sentenced-to-at-least-3-years-in-state-prison

I think "burst out laughing" is a mischaracterization, though.

Quote: Dalex64

Looks like that quote is from April, not moments after being sentanced to 3 to 10 years in state prison.

You are right
Lazy search :-)

Quote: zippyboy

3 to 10 years? Which is it? When do we learn what the real sentence is?

That IS the sentence. No less than 3 nor more than 10.

Quote: Dalex64

I think "burst out laughing" is a mischaracterization, though.

Cosby is rich, over 100 million. His
lawyers are making boatloads,
and part of that is keeping Cosby
in denial that he's really going to
prison for 3 years because it will
be overturned in appeal. That
could be why Cosby was not in
a glum mood and laughed. He
thinks this is just an inconvenience.

His lawyers are playing the race card,
this is all about lying women and
juries hating blacks. It won't work,
he'll serve 3 years.

Quote: Fleastiff

That IS the sentence. No less than 3 nor more than 10.

I was thinking he was facing 3-10 years, months ago when he was officially charged (meaning min 3 years, max 10). The sentencing is supposed to narrow it down. No one, when he goes to jail, says "I got 3-10", they say "damn I got 72 months", they KNOW what they got. News should have told us Cosby got 10 years, eligible for parole after 3 years.

Is it possible Cosby is a sociopath. I just saw an
interview with a woman in her 70's that Cosby
raped in 1974. She was a co-worker in TV,
and he violently raped her in a hotel room.

She thought they were friends and she thought
he was going to kill her. Afterwards he calmly
told her if she said a word she would never
work in TV again. She pointed out that he has
never expressed any remorse for what he did.
That's the hallmark of a sociopath.

That actually disturbs me more than him being
just a rapist.

All this talk of Cosby getting time because of molesting someone 30 years ago, could also happen to Kavanaugh of course. That story's just at the beginning.

Quote: Evenbob

he has never expressed any remorse for what he did.
That's the hallmark of a sociopath.

First of all, criminals never express remorse for what they did; they only express remorse for "what happened" and that is always a joke in itself. Any remorse is remorse over being caught and convicted, and is usually said in court prior to sentencing as a sort of ploy for leniency. Most criminals know what they are doing and have their reasons for doing it. They just didn't know they would get caught.

Look at that Canadian guy who killed his girlfriend, killed a guy simply because he wanted his old pickup truck on the cheap (by incinerating him alive) and then killed his father for a multi-million dollar inheritance he was about to lose: He cried in court because he was so remorseful.

Cosby raped a woman and cowed her into silence. That is what rapists enjoy doing.

Defense attorneys assert that trial judge improperly used 'prior bad acts' testimony in sentencing rather than merely in determining guilt or innocence.
Appeal also asserts Sexual Predator statute as unconstitutional and requires a judicial finding of a non-defined psychological term.

Quote: Fleastiff

Defense attorneys assert .

Just spending more of Cosby's Jello
money, par for the course. They'll
bleed him dry.