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>>> COMEDIAN BILL COSBY IS ATHOME TONIGHT AND OUT OF PRISON AFTER HIS SEXUAL ASSAULT CONVICTION WAS OVERTURNED THIS MORNING.

>> COSBY IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST-PROFILE CELEBRITIES TO BE CONVICTED OF A CRIME SINCE THE START OF THE ME TOO MOVEMENT. HOW HE WALKED AWAY A FREE MAN.

>> Reporter: THIS REVERSALTONIGHT IS BEING CALLEDSTUNNING. BILL COSBY’S FREEDOM, DECIDED BY THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT. YOU CAN SEE COSBY RETURNING THIS HOME OUTSIDE OF PHILADELPHIA TODAY HIM AS HE GETS OUT OF THE VEHICLE HE FLASHES A V FOR VICTORY SIGN, LATER APPEARING IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA WITH HIS LEGAL TEAM SPEAKING.

>> IN TERMS OF A LEGAL CASE, ITIS OVER.AS FAR AS WE UNDERSTAND IT. THE HIGH COURT VACATED THE CONVICTION, DISCHARGED HIM, AND THANKFULLY THEY SAW IT THE WAY WE SAW IT.

THE STATES THE COURT DECISION IS NOT A STATEMENT ON HIS GUILT BUT INSTEAD, RULING THE CASE SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN BROUGHT AGAINST HIM, THAT THE PROSECUTOR WHO BROUGHT THE CASE WAS BOUND BY HIS RED ASSESSOR’S AGREEMENT NOT TO CHARGE COSBY. IT WAS BASED ON THAT AGREEMENT COSBY SPOKE DURING A DAMAGING DEPOSITION IN A CIVIL LAWSUIT BROUGHT BY TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SPORTS ADMINISTRATOR, ANDREA CONSTAND. A PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL ANALYST TELLS US HE IS NOT SURPRISED WITH THE RULING.

I JUST THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND WHILE SOME PEOPLE MIGHT LOOK AT IT AS A LOSS FOR THE VICTIM OR THINK THE RICH AND POWERFUL GOT AWAY WITH SOMETHING, I THINK WE ALL NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS IS A WIN FOR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.

83-YEAR-OLD COSBY HAS SERVED NEARLY 3 YEARS OF A3 TO 10 YEAR SENTENCE AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY OF DRUGGING AND VIOLATING CAN’T STAND IN HIS SUBURBAN PHILADELPHIA HOME IN 2004, JUST LAST MONTH, HE WAS REFUSED PAROLE BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO ADMIT GUILT, AND PARTICIPATE IN A OFFENDER PROGRAM BEHIND BARS. THIS CASE APPEARS TO BE OVER AND


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