The judge put Cosby in prison and declared Cosby to be a “sexually violent predator.” Some of his crimes were committed decades ago. Since there seems to be some question today by some as to whether potential old crimes should be investigated and prosecuted…
Bill Cosby’s pompous moralizing and lecturing led to him been convicted, as it allowed a judge to unseal depositions of Cosby where he admitted using drugs on women to have sex with them. That was the beginning of the end for Cosby.
If it hadn’t been for his decision to scold poor black Americans for their moral failures while decades of sexual-assault allegations had remained hidden, it’s possible that none of Cosby’s victims would have gotten their day in court.
Having “donned the mantle of public moralist and mounted the proverbial electronic or print soap box to volunteer his views on, among other things, childrearing, family life, education, and crime,” [a judge] wrote, Cosby had “voluntarily narrowed the zone of privacy that he is entitled to claim.”