Tracking Cosby like an animal
LOS ANGELES — The fallout continued Friday for funnymanturned-felon Bill Cosby.
Pennsylvania Judge Steven O’Neill said the comic, who’s out on bail, must be fitted with a GPS tracking device while under house arrest at his suburban Philadelphia mansion while awaiting sentencing.
The judge also ordered that Cosby, who was found guilty Thursday of drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University staffer Andrea Constand inside his Philadelphia mansion in 2004, undergo a “sexually violent predator assessment.”
Cosby’s alma mater Temple University, meanwhile, revoked an honorary degree bestowed in 1991.
Cosby’s spokesman Andrew Wyatt said the developments didn’t dent the comic’s faith he’ll eventually overturn the sexual assault conviction handed down Thursday.
“Mr. Cosby is doing fantastic. He’s in great spirits and his humor has not stopped,” Wyatt told the Daily News.
He said an appeal was in the works. He said the grounds will include alleged prosecutorial misconduct and the defense contention that juror No. 11 said even before the trial started that he considered Cosby guilty.
Judge O’Neill previously investigated the claim and allowed the juror to remain on the panel.
“This was a public lynching,” Wyatt said Friday. “The same thing happened to Emmett Till.”
Till was a 14-year-old black boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after a white woman said he had offended her.
“We got an opportunity to see the South come to the East,” Wyatt said. “These jurors did not get it right, they got it wrong. We feel that the fix was in.”
One Cosby accuser who attended both of his trials said the Emmett Till comparison left her feeling “nauseated.”
“It just disgusts me. It shows the profundity of Bill Cosby’s depravity,” Lili Bernard told the Daily News Friday.
Bernard, who is black, stepped forward in 2015 to say she was drugged and raped by Cosby in the early 1990s after he cast her on “The Cosby Show” as a pregnant patient of his character Dr. Cliff Huxtable.
She called Cosby a “malignant narcissist” and a “monster.”