With jury selection less than a week away, attorneys scrambled to deal with shifting evidence Tuesday in Bill Cosby’s civil trial over allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl at the Playboy mansion nearly 50 years ago.
Plaintiff Judy Huth said in a recent court filing that she now believes the assault happened in 1975 when she was 16, not in 1974 when she was 15 as she had long alleged, spurring cries of foul and a request to dismiss the case from Cosby’s attorneys, who said the change has upended their defense on the eve of trial.Los Angeles County
Huth’s attorneys said the change in her story came after research of archival evidence led them to determine the dates when Cosby was shooting the movie "Let’s Do It Again" at a Los Angeles-area park, where Huth says the two met before he took her to the mansion. Cosby’s attorneys said they had built much of their trial defense around the timing of the trip to the Playboy Mansion, including going to great lengths to establish Cosby’s whereabouts at the time, and basing their planned questions for Huth on the witness stand around her account of the chronology.
Bonjean also said the changed story also means changes to the relevance of the case’s law, which treats 15-year-olds and 16-year-olds differently.
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