UNITED STATES
CNN
By Eric Levenson, CNN
April 27, 2018
(CNN)Bill Cosby was done being quiet.
The TV icon did not testify in his criminal trial in a Norristown, Pennsylvania courthouse, and he sat silently through more than two weeks of emotional testimony from witnesses and fierce cross-examination from his attorneys.
He didn’t visibly react when the jury found him guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault. But minutes later, prosecutors asked the judge to revoke Cosby’s bail because, they said, he had a private plane and might skip town. Cosby erupted.
“He doesn’t have a plane, you asshole,” Cosby boomed, referring to himself in the 3rd person.
The outburst punctuated a stunning day in history — or “herstory,” as attorney Gloria Allred put it. The trial ended with the first, second and third guilty verdict against a celebrity accused of sexual assault since the start of the #MeToo movement, signaling the movement’s power inside the courtroom.
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