PENNSYLVANIA
NPR
[with audio]
April 16, 2018
Heard on Morning Edition
BOBBY ALLYN
The jury heard last week from six accusers, including Andrea Constand, who says Cosby drugged and assaulted her in 2004. Her accusations prompted the only criminal charges filed against Cosby.
NOEL KING, HOST:
The woman whose story prompted the only criminal charges ever filed against Bill Cosby is back on the witness stand today in Cosby’s sexual assault retrial in Pennsylvania. Bobby Allyn of member station WHYY has the story.
BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE: Andrea Constand has been here before. Last year, she testified over two days about what she says happened to her at Cosby’s home in suburban Philadelphia in 2004. But a jury couldn’t agree on a verdict, and the judge declared a mistrial, so she’s doing it again. Before addressing the court, she sat with her eyes closed, silently meditating. She told jurors in the midst of a career crisis, Cosby invited her over. Quote, “these are your friends,” she said Cosby said to her, handing her three pills. Quote, “they will take the edge off.” Lawyer Gloria Allred represents several Cosby accusers and was in the courtroom.
GLORIA ALLRED: She trusted him. She had ingested the three blue pills that he gave her that he had gone upstairs to get.
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