NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania appeals court on Monday cleared the way for the criminal case against Bill Cosby to proceed, rejecting the comedian’s attempt to have the charges thrown out due to a deal he contends was reached with prosecutors a decade ago.
The state Superior Court had put the case on hold while it considered whether to take up Cosby’s unusual pretrial appeal.
The 78-year-old actor and comic is charged with drugging and assaulting Andrea Constand, a former basketball coach at his alma mater Temple University, at his home in 2004.