PENNSYLVANIA
Straits Times (Singapore)
April 25. 2018
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania (Washington Post) – On Day 12 of his sex-assault trial, deep into a prosecutor’s heated closing argument, Bill Cosby was laughing.
Some in the jam-packed courtroom might have missed it, but his chuckles and his ear-to-ear smile caught the eye of Assistant District Attorney Kristen Feden on the opposite side of the room.
And she exploded. “He’s laughing like it’s funny!” Feden said Tuesday (April 24) in a booming voice, stalking towards the comic legend and extending a long, slender, accusatory forefinger. “But there’s absolutely nothing funny about stripping a woman of her capacity to consent.”
Cosby stared right back, unblinking, a smile etched on his face. He kept laughing – his demeanour belittling Feden’s argument that he’d engaged in a decades-long pattern of drugging and sexual assault.
The extraordinary confrontation – a stare-down between the 80-year-old pioneering African-American entertainer and a much younger African-American prosecutor – punctuated a volcanic day of closing arguments that sent the jury into deliberations with vastly contrasting portraits.
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