The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the bid by prosecutors in Pennsylvania to reinstate Bill Cosby’s criminal conviction for sexual assault.
Cosby was released from prison in June 2021, after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated his 2018 indecent assault conviction.
The high court on Monday declined a request from prosecutors to hear the case and reinstate the conviction.
Andrew Wyatt, a spokesperson for Bill Cosby, called the decision “a victory.” “On behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Cosby and the Cosby family, we would like to offer our sincere gratitude to the justices of the United States Supreme Court for following the rules of law and protecting the Constitutional Rights of ALL American Citizens,” he said in a statement.
Cosby was convicted on three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault in 2018 of drugging and assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. He was sentenced to three to 10 years in a state prison but only served 3 years.
