Comedian Bill Cosby faces the latest court hearing this week in his sexual assault case, but his attorneys will again try to shift attention to his accuser.
Lawyers for the 78-year-old entertainer are set to ask a judge to throw out the charges leveled by Andrea Constand, who says Cosby drugged and assaulted her at his home in 2004.
If the Cosby case proceeds to trial, U.S. media attention will focus once more on the debate over the justice system’s handling of sexual assault cases.
The issue was most recently spotlighted in June when there was a national outcry after a judge gave a former Stanford University swimmer a six-month sentence for sexual assault.
Cosby’s defense team has made it clear their trial strategy will be to discredit Constand’s account.
Accusations of sexual assault from dozens of women have knocked Cosby off his longtime pedestal as one of the most beloved U.S. entertainers.
