With a verdict of $19.25 million in damages, a Santa Monica jury has found Bill Cosby guilty of drugging and raping Donna Motsinger 54-years ago.
Whether or not the financially strapped comedian will be able to pay any of the judgement is doubtful, but his latest lawyer Jennifer Bonjean says an appeal is already being planned. Just like in previous sexual assault trials, both criminal and civil, the now 88-year-old Cosby did not testify in his own defense.
Found liable for claims of the sexual assault of an intoxicated woman and sexual battery by the jury after just three days of deliberation, Cosby has been ordered to pay Motsinger $17.5 million for her past mental trauma. He had to pay another $1.75 million for mental suffering the now 84-year-old former Bay Area waitress, who was allowed to sue Cosby under changes in recent years in California’s statute of limitations
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