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Bill Cosby Plays the Race Card to Avoid Standing Trial

Legal Fight

In a just-filed motion for dismissal, the disgraced comedian’s lawyers are arguing that because of his race, he won’t receive a fair trial.

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Comedian Bill Cosby shouldn’t have to stand trial on felony sexual assault charges—a proceeding scheduled to begin next June—because he is old, blind, forgetful, and African-American.

Those, anyway, are among the arguments being deployed in the disgraced pop-culture icon’s new motion for dismissal that was filed Thursday in a Montgomery County,...

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