While Covid-19 concerns have freed a variety of people currently incarcerated, Cosby doesn't qualify.
Why? The hanging judge who went after him over two trials branded him a "Dangerous Sexual Predator," despite a lack of violence in the case over which he presided.
which seems to be taken very literally. Some of the most violent rapists ever to be locked up behind bars don't have "Dangerous Sexual Predator" attached to their name. Certainly not Ibrahim Bouaichi.
He was in jail for rape, released due to Covid-19 concerns and...he killed his accuser.
The dangerous sexual predator is generally considered to be someone with a knife, a gun, or a pair of clenched fists for whom rape is just part of the violence.
The killer in this case, is some 50 years younger than Cosby, with perfect eyesight, and not walking with a cane, and not famously recognizable to EVERYBODY in America.
If Cosby is released to serve the rest of this time (and he could be dead before the sentence ends), he would be in home confinement. Monitored.
The killer in this case, was set free to kill.
The Cosby case is currently on appeal, with the most salient point being how it's possible to arrange a deal with both the prosecutor and the victim, and then to have that signed and agreed upon outcome voided by an ambitious new prosecutor with the help of an obviously biased judge.
While there have been cases of a widely loathed celebrity getting convicted on a lesser charge (Al Capone for tax evasion, O.J. Simpson for trying to get back some stolen memorabilia), none have been quite as flimsy as the situation with Cosby.
Now with "disgraced" usually added to his name, Cosby, the "disgraced comedian" and "disgraced Jell-o pudding endorser" and "disgraced PhD" is not likely to do much if he's out of jail. Not when he's under house-arrest and has maybe a few hundred people on YouTube even bothering to follow him.
Despite his unfortunately chosen title for his last stand-up show, "Far From Finished," Cosby is finished. He's just not as finished as Karla Dominguez. And that tragedy is just an example of how warped and easily played the courts are.
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