Cosby loses bid to block prosecutors from using his deposition

PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby on Monday lost one of the biggest legal battles leading up to his looming sex-assault trial when a Montgomery County judge ruled that prosecutors can tell jurors about damaging, decade-old testimony in which Cosby acknowledged offering drugs to women he wanted to seduce.

Cosby’s lawyers argued that he agreed to the deposition — taken to resolve a lawsuit by his accuser, Andrea Constand — only because he had been promised by a previous district attorney that he would never be charged in connection with her claims.



Since he was charged last year with three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault, Cosby has lost on every issue he has raised with the court, including a bid to have the case thrown out based on the same purported 2005 oral agreement with then-District Attorney Bruce Castor.