Bill Cosby fails to have sex assault case thrown out

Bill Cosby has lost an attempt to have sexual assault charges against him thrown out. In a ruling, the judge who refused to dismiss the case earlier this month denied Cosby’s appeal against that decision.

The 78-year-old TV star is accused of drugging and violating an ex-Temple University employee at his Philadelphia home in 2004 and could get 10 years in prison if convicted.

The defence insists Cosby had a promise from a previous district attorney that he would never be charged over the 2004 encounter. But Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill found the evidence of such an agreement lacking.