Judge bars some Cosby accusers

In a major break for Bill Cosby, a U.S. judge ruled Friday that just one of the comedian’s multitude of other accusers can testify at his trial to bolster charges he drugged and violated a woman more than a decade ago. The 79-year-old television star is set to go on trial in June, accused of sexually assaulting a Canadian woman, former Temple University employee Andrea Constand, in 2004. Prosecutors wanted to put 13 other women on the stand to show his alleged conduct was part of a distinct pattern of behaviour. The one witness who can testify says Cosby drugged and assaulted her in 1996 at a Los Angeles hotel.