Bill Cosby sent his legal defense team after
Andrea Constand on the third day of his trial on criminal rape charges — with attorneys blasting her over continued calls to the comic after the night of the alleged sexual assault!
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Andrea, who claims
she was drugged and sexually assaulted by the disgraced comic, faced Cosby's attorneys after
testifying that Cosby raped her in Jan. of 2004. The comedy star's attorney's began by noting that Andrea had originally told police that the attack happened on March 16, 2004, when she finally filed a criminal report with police in 2005. Then defense attorney Angela Agrusa accused Andrea of changing the date of the alleged assault to implicate Cosby.
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Referring to phone records, Agrusa (seen here talking to her client) accused Andrea of changing the date of the alleged assault after going over her own phone records. “Once you got hold of your phone records [in 2005] and realized you cannot have been passed out…the night you told police — you changed your story?”
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Andrea denied having checked her phone records — which Agrusa had in her possession, asking: "During the time you told police you
were drugged and unconscious, you were on the phone, making calls?" Constand calmly responded: "I wasn't drugged, or unconscious, or sexually assaulted on March 16, 2004."
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Cosby isn't denying that he had sex with Andrea, with his defense team insisting that any relations with Andrea were "romantic." The defense also produced phone records showing that Andrea had repeatedly called Cosby between Jan. and Feb. 2004 — weeks after the night of the alleged assault.
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“You were calling Mr. Cosby with alarming frequency,” Ms. Agrusa said, citing one phone call on Valentine's Day. Andrea, however, remained calm, saying: “I called him on the 14th. Yes, I see that” — and noting at one point: “I may have been returning phone calls.”
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It was part of a long day on the stand that also included Andrea rebutting claims of a romantic relationship. When Agrusa asked her about an earlier dinner with Cosby, the attorney said: “You allowed him to touch your thigh?” Andrea responded: “You said ‘allowed.’ Mr. Cosby did that of his own volition.”
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