Among the issues challenged in the appeal: five other accusers who were allowed to testify.
Cosby’s lawyers argue the 83-year-old was stripped of the presumption of innocence as he was “forced to defend a half-dozen mini-trials involving antiquated claims of sexual misconduct along with the general narrative he took advantage of countless young women in the 1970s.”
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Prosecutors have 30 days to file a response.
Cosby has been in SCI Phoenix in Montgomery County since September 2018 on a three- to 10-year sentence.