BREAKING NEWS: Bill Cosby, 83, will be released from prison TODAY after Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns his sexual assault conviction
Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction has been overturned by Pennsylvania's Supreme Court
He will be released from SCI Phoenix in Skippack Township later today after serving two years behind bars
He was convicted in 2018 of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home
He had been publicly accused of other misconduct by different women but none of their claims could be prosecuted because they fell outside statutes of limitations
At Cosby's first trial, only one other woman testified and the jury was deadlocked - a mistrial was declared
At his 2nd trial, prosecutors called five other women to testify who all claimed he'd abused them in some way
Their claims were separate from the Constand case but prosecutors said painted a picture of his character
It's a tactic that was also used by prosecutors in Harvey Weinstein's trial to demonstrate a pattern of behavior
Cosby fought it, saying their testimony was irrelevant and would lead the jury to assume he was guilty
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that it wasn't fair and tainted the jury beyond repair
They also ruled that a prosecutor's remark in 2005 that he wasn't going to charge Cosby led him to incriminate himself in a deposition
Comments he made in that deposition were among the evidence prosecutors used to retry Cosby
