Bill Cosby Ordered By Judge To Give Deposition In Sex Assault Lawsuit

Bill Cosby Ordered By Judge To Give Sworn Deposition In Sex Assault Lawsuit

Via HuffingtonPost

Bill Cosby has been ordered to give a sworn deposition in a lawsuit brought by a woman accusing the comedian of plying her with alcohol and sexually abusing her at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles when she was 15 years old.

It marks the first time Cosby, 78, has been directed to testify under oath in response to a complaint of sexual misconduct against him since a deposition he gave in a separate Pennsylvania case he settled out of court nine years ago.

The latest order, made public on Wednesday, a day after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge entered it, requires Cosby to submit under oath to questions from the lawyer of his Los Angeles accuser, Judy Huth, on Oct. 9. Now in her 50s, Huth must likewise answer questions from his attorneys on Oct. 15.

Huth gained somewhat of a tactical advantage from the judge’s decision compelling Cosby to go first.

The precise times and places were not revealed, but Huth’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, has said she expects to depose Cosby in Massachusetts, where he resides.

The way for the depositions, a key part of the discovery process in civil litigation, was cleared when the California Supreme Court last month denied Cosby’s petition to review the case, dealing a final blow to his efforts to fend off Huth’s lawsuit.

Her complaint, brought in December 2014, charged that Cosby sexually abused her by putting his hand down her pants and then “taking her hand in his hand and performing a sex act on himself without her consent.”

We have absolutely no doubt that the video footage of this deposition will leak eventually, but we’d still LOVE to be a fly on the wall in that room while Billy boy is answering some tough questions.

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