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   Bill Cosby did not walk free because he wasn’t guilty of   
   drugging and then sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004 —   
   or as he preferred to see it, of “dancing outside” of his   
   marriage. That’s absolutely not what the Pennsylvania Supreme   
   Court said.   
      
   But it’s also wrong to say that he escaped justice on a   
   technicality. He escaped justice because a prosecutor’s office   
   violated its previous agreement not to charge him. Go ahead and   
   testify in a civil suit by Constand, they told him, because   
   you’re not going to be charged.   
      
   That deal was incredibly stupid, but it was also binding. Yet   
   after Cosby waived his rights and implicated himself, a   
   successor to the DA who’d made that agreement decided to charge   
   him anyway. Which wasn’t either fair or constitutional.   
      
   And as sick as I am to see a man accused by more than 50 women   
   dance outside of his prison cell, I don’t think I get to be   
   against prosecutorial wrongdoing only when it suits me.   
      
   When then-Wyandotte County prosecutor Ed Brancart cheated his   
   way to a murder conviction against Kansas City, Kansas, mailman   
   Olin “Pete” Coones in 2009, the result was that an innocent man   
   served 12 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. That   
   turned out to be a death sentence, since by the time Coones was   
   freed last November, the cancer that had gone undetected behind   
   bars was so advanced that he died in February, at age 64, after   
   just 108 days of freedom.   
      
   Who paid for Brancart’s willingness to suborn perjury, suppress   
   exculpatory evidence and present testimony that was “patently   
   untrue?” Not him, of course; he kept his well-paid job   
   prosecuting Medicaid fraud for Kansas Attorney General Derek   
   Schmidt.   
      
   Coones and his family lost everything as a result, but the rest   
   of us lost something, too. Not just because Kansans paid for his   
   incarceration, but because of the cascade of wrong actions that   
   his unjust conviction led to — including the merciless bullying   
   of his kids, by their teachers as well as their classmates.   
      
   But if I’m furious that Brancart coerced testimony from a   
   mentally ill inmate to put a good man behind bars, then I can’t   
   be OK with what Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, prosecutors   
   pulled, even against a man I consider a prolific criminal.   
      
   I can’t be appalled that then-WyCo prosecutor Terra Morehead   
   told Niko Quinn, “I’ll throw your Black ass in jail” unless she   
   testified against Lamonte McIntyre, a man Quinn knew to be   
   innocent, but then approve of the “coercive bait and switch”   
   that allowed Cosby to be charged.   
      
   I can’t hope — and oh, I do hope — that the police and   
   prosecutorial wrongdoing that led to the wrongful murder   
   convictions of Celester McKinney and his cousin Brian Betts in   
   KCK 23 years ago is soon corrected in court, but also be willing   
   to watch a different prosecutorial wrong stand.   
      
   For all the rape victims who see Cosby’s raised victory sign and   
   wonder how many dozen violated women would have to come forward   
   to not only get a conviction but make it stick, I share your   
   disgust.   
      
   But I’m just as sorry that his prosecutors will pay no price for   
   their overreach beyond some embarrassment.   
      
   It’s because prosecutors are almost never punished for their   
   shortcuts and perfidy that they feel so free to tell the kind of   
   lies that ruin lives, and even end them. That’s what has to   
   change to keep the innocent from being sent away in the first   
   place, and to keep the guilty from ever walking free.   
      
   https://news.yahoo.com/bill-cosby-not-free-technicality-   
   100000012.html   
      
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