Bill Cosby’s lawyers sought to undermine Judy Hughes’ credibility during the trial. His lawyer said she changed the year she said she was assaulted, asked why she didn’t appear decades ago, and invented her account so she could file a proceeding. Suggested to be an unreliable witness.
“Frankly, I don’t think I can believe anything Hughes says,” said Jennifer Bonjan, Cosby’s lawyer. “If she says, I’m not going to trust her just because we live in an era when it must be true,” she added. “There is no evidence.”
Bonjan said Hughes changed her memory when the episode happened. Huth initially said it happened in 1974, but she concluded it at the age of 15, and more recently at the age of 16 in 1975.
Hughes said he noticed that he had the wrong date. One of the reasons is that in 1975, Cosby saw a photo that looked like he had a beard and went to the Playboy Mansion with him. ..
Cosby’s defense team also wondered how Hughes suffered from ruthless sexual abuse at the Playboy Mansion. ..
Mr. Hughes testified that she was angry and wanted to leave after the encounter, but her friend Donna Samuelson, who took her to the mansion, persuaded her to stay. Samuelson, she testified, she wanted Hughes to calm down.
And Cosby’s lawyer only asked why she hadn’t filed her charges for decades and decided to file a proceeding in December 2014, long after the 1975 encounter. ..
Huth appeared only earlier in 2014 when she realized that the anxiety, depression, and other difficulties she suffered in later years were caused by what she described as Cosby’s sexual assault. Said that.
However, Cosby’s lawyer has experienced many other emotional pains in her life, including what she reported as an encounter with a family member who tried to sexually abuse her at an early age. Suggested that it arose from a painful episode of. “She can’t prove that there was a causal link between this incident and the alleged trauma 40 years later,” Bonjan said.
Cosby’s legal team was required under California law to qualify Hughes to file a proceeding decades later, causing emotional damage caused by the event many years ago. I accused him of pretending to suddenly notice.
When she contacted a National Enquirer reporter 10 years ago, his lawyer asked why he was able to remember the encounter recently and tried to make money by selling his photo with Mr. Cosby. Suggested that there is. They introduced a former reporter and argued that his portrayal of Mr. Hughes’ encounter with Mr. Cosby was inconsistent with Mr. Hughes’ own explanation from the stand.
Hughes testified at trial that Cosby took her hand and forced her to have sexual intercourse. However, reporter Robin Mizurahi said in a personal essay published in 2018 that Hughes, identified by the essay’s pseudonym, was too scared to touch Cosby in a 2005 interview. Have sexually acted on herself.
However, Mr. Hughes denied that money was the motive for her progress and said the essay was not accurate.
Defensive witness Mizrahi also said he tried to reconstruct the 2005 interview as memorably as possible, rather than from simultaneous recordings of their conversations, and could not guarantee the accuracy of the essay. Stated.
Cosby did not testify in court, but he denied sexual contact with Hughes in a video testimony for the jury. He didn’t know her, didn’t remember taking her to the Playboy Mansion, and wouldn’t recognize her, he said.
Bonjan alleged in court that Hughes had the opportunity to be monetarily motivated, coordinate with his friend Samuelson, and join other whistleblowers who provided an explanation for Cosby’s misconduct in 2014. did.
