{"id":32492,"date":"2018-09-25T22:06:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T22:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32492"},"modified":"2018-09-25T22:06:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T22:06:39","slug":"the-system-worked-cosby-sent-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32492","title":{"rendered":"The system worked: Cosby sent to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Many of us have griped on occasion about the occasional inequity of the U.S. criminal justice system.<\/p>\n

I have to say, though, that today the system worked well.<\/p>\n

A judge in Pennsylvania sentenced the man once known as “America’s Dad” to three to 10 years in a state prison and declared William Cosby to be a “violent\u00a0 sexual predator.”<\/p>\n

Bill Cosby’s status as a comic superstar, TV star, iconic figure didn’t matter as the judge sent Cosby to the slammer. What’s more, his name will be etched forever on a sex offender registry when and\/or if<\/em> he gets out of prison; the man is 81 years of age.<\/p>\n

A jury convicted Cosby of drugging and raping Andrea Constand in 2004. Other women have come forward to allege that he had done the same thing to them.<\/p>\n

I take no joy in applauding the sentence and Cosby’s new status as a prison convict. Some years ago, my wife and I attended an event at West Texas A&M University that featured Cosby, who brought the house down with a rip-roaring stand-up routine.<\/p>\n

That was then. The here and now tells us something quite different about Cosby and what a trial jury determined him to be.<\/p>\n

He is getting precisely what he deserves.<\/p>\n\n

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Many of us have griped on occasion about the occasional inequity of the U.S. criminal justice system. I have to say, though, that today the system worked well. A judge in Pennsylvania sentenced the man once known as “America’s Dad” to three to 10 years in a state prison and declared William Cosby to be … Continue reading The system worked: Cosby sent to prison<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[632,1191,8019,4235],"class_list":["post-32492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-legal-news","tag-bill-cosby","tag-criminal-justice-system","tag-sex-offender","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32494,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32492\/revisions\/32494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}