Already behind bars for over a year and a half for the 2004 rape of Andrea Constand, the coronavirus pandemic won’t see Bill Cosby getting an early release any time soon. “Mr. Cosby is…
Cosby’s team said that they “were exploring all legal actions” to have their 82-year old client released as states all over the stay-at-home nation are letting out imprisoned seniors and others with relevant status or at risk for COVID-19.
Earlier this week, PA Gov. Tom Wolf started signed orders for prisoners to be let out after issuing an executive order on April 10. The legally blind Cosby is housed at the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, which has nearly 20 inmates as confirmed coronavirus cases. Today, mere days after the first COVID-19 related inmate death at SCI Phoenix, nine prisoners at the facility were released as concerns rise of more infections to come.
Bill Cosby was not among them because the officially labeled sexual predator’s violent offender status, as state authorities said. “What you heard is absolutely correct,” the comedian’s longtime publicist & crisis manager Andrew Wyatt admitted to Deadline today of Cosby’s status and how that renders him ineligible for Gov. Wolf’s Temporary Program to Reprieve Sentences of Incarceration. “But, with the surge of the COVID-19 plague and its effects on the health of the elderly, people of color and the fact that Mr.
Earlier Thursday, Wyatt released a statement proclaiming “our legal team will not be filing a petition, until we see how Governor Wolf’s executive order will be implemented.”
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