Cosby’s wife alleges bias

Days before Bill Cosby’s scheduled sentencing on felony sex assault charges, his wife has demanded Monday that a Pennsylvania ethics board investigate the judge over what she alleges is bias. Camille Cosby renewed allegations that trial judge Steven O’Neill had a grudge against a key witness during a 2016 pretrial hearing. O’Neill sent the case to trial afterward and Cosby was convicted at a retrial this spring of drugging and molesting a woman at his home in 2004. Camille Cosby travelled to Harrisburg on Monday to file a complaint with the state Judicial Conduct Board. Defence lawyers filed a similar motion in Montgomery County Court last week asking O’Neill to step down before sentencing. Cosby, 81, faces up to 10 years in prison on each of three felony counts, but would likely get far less time under state guidelines. He has been under house arrest at his estate near Philadelphia since the April 26 conviction. The Cosbys said they’ve hired a former FBI agent to investigate the alleged feud between O’Neill and former Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor, the witness at issue, who had declined to prosecute Cosby when Canadian accuser Andrea Constand first went to police in 2005. The defence said the alleged O’NeillCastor feud stemmed from the late 1990s, when they both pursued the job of county prosecutor and O’Neill dated a woman in Castor’s office. More than 60 woman have accused Cosby of sexually assaulted them, often having drugged them first.