The Province

Cosby seeks ban on drug testimony

- — Postmedia wire services

Bill Cosby’s lawyers filed a motion Tuesday to prevent jurors at his upcoming sex-assault trial from hearing the actor admit to giving women sedatives, money or educationa­l funds, saying the testimony would unfairly prejudice them. Cosby acknowledg­ed in a decade-old deposition that he gave one woman sedatives and a string of women alcohol or pills before sex. Cosby, 79, is charged with drugging and sexually assaulting Canadian woman Andrea Constand, then a Temple University basketball team manager, in 2004.

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