When is it legitimate to try and convict people in the court of public opinion? (e.g. Bill Cosby and others)

[barbos]

What's gonna happen to Bill Cosby's image of a good and nice guy?

 

[Toni]

I just saw a report that Janice Dickenson claims he raped her in 1982. I know she's been on various reality TV shows but I don't know her well enough to speculate if she is simply an attention whore that would say or do anything for publicity. Either way its not good for him to have a celebrity accuse him.

What I read is that he tried to extort sex from her, answered his hotel room door on nothing but a towel, grabbed her and kissed her full on the lips and was angry when she wasn't agreeable. This, if true, is gross but not rape.

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What's gonna happen to Bill Cosby's image of a good and nice guy?

I think that's all shot to hell now.


I really don't want the allegations to be true but it is a little hard not to believe that they might be true.

 

[Axulus]

What I read is that he tried to extort sex from her, answered his hotel room door on nothing but a towel, grabbed her and kissed her full on the lips and was angry when she wasn't agreeable. This, if true, is gross but not rape.

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What's gonna happen to Bill Cosby's image of a good and nice guy?

I think that's all shot to hell now.


I really don't want the allegations to be true but it is a little hard not to believe that they might be true.

Here is what she said in an interview:

Dickinson says they had dinner in Lake Tahoe, and claims that he gave her a glass of red wine and a pill, which she asked for because she was menstruating and had stomach pains.

VIDEO: Alleged Bill Cosby Rape Victim Joan Tarshis Speaks to ET

And that's when she tells ET that things took a disturbing turn.

"The next morning I woke up, and I wasn't wearing my pajamas, and I remember before I passed out that I had been sexually assaulted by this man," she tells ET. "... Before I woke up in the morning, the last thing I remember was Bill Cosby in a patchwork robe, dropping his robe and getting on top of me. And I remember a lot of pain. The next morning I remember waking up with my pajamas off and there was semen in between my legs."

Dickinson also says she tried to write about the assault in her 2002 autobiography No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel, but claims that when she submitted a draft with her full story to HarperCollins, Cosby and his lawyers pressured her and the publisher to remove the details

http://www.etonline.com/news/154076_janice_dickinson_details_alleged_bill_cosby_sexual_assault/

That makes it 15 accusers now as another new allegation surfaced last week.

 

[Bronzeage]

What's gonna happen to Bill Cosby's image of a good and nice guy?

It's pretty much down the drain. Cosby's public persona, both in his TV shows and his stand up act, are based on tight knit family relationships. Date rape just doesn't play well in that genre.

His only way out of this would be to discover this is the work of one person and the 12 other accusers were fictitious. It would help if the accuser had been arrested after breaking into Bill's house and hiding in the closet. Anything less and Bill can just enjoy a secluded retirement.