Cos att’ys: Get off our case, judge

THE JUDGE in Bill Cosby’s upcoming sexual assault retrial is married to an advocate for victims of assault — and Cosby’s lawyers want him removed because of it.

In a motion filed Tuesday, the disgraced TV star’s defense team argued that Judge Steven O’Neill could potentially be seen as biased due to his marriage to Deborah O’Neill, a social worker with a history of aiding victims of sexual trauma.

They called on O’Neill to recuse himself ahead of the trial, which is set to begin April 2, and allow another judge to step in.

Deborah O’Neill works for the Counseling & Psychological Services at the University of Pennsylvania, and lists her specialties as trauma, sexual assault and women’s issues, among others.

She has described herself as an “advocate for assault victims” and wrote her dissertation on acquaintance rape.

Part of the team’s argument cited O’Neill’s ruling last week that five additional accusers would be allowed to testify against Cosby — a bump up from the lone accuser who took the stand at his first trial in June.

Cosby, 80, is set to return to the courtroom 10 months after his case ended in a mistrial thanks to a deadlocked jury.

The comedian is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004, and has pleaded not guilty.