“In a major break for Bill Cosby, a judge ruled Friday that just one of the comedian’s multitude of other accusers can testify at his trial to bolster charges he drugged and violated a woman more than a decade ago,” the AP reports.
Cosby, 79, is due to go on trial in June in a sexual assault case. He’s accused of assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his home near Philadelphia in 2004.
“Prosecutors wanted to put 13 more women on the stand to show that his alleged conduct was part of a distinct pattern of behavior,” the AP reports. “Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill disallowed all but one of those women, saying in a one-page ruling that he carefully weighed the possible value of their testimony against the potential prejudice to Cosby.”
“The one witness who can testify says the comic drugged and assaulted her in 1996 at a Los Angeles hotel,” the report adds.
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