Attorneys for Bill Cosby filed for a change in venue Friday for his criminal sexual assault case, claiming that the suburban Philadelphia setting where he will be tried can’t provide him a “fair and impartial” trial.
In a Friday motion for a change of venue filed in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Cosby’s attorneys wrote: “It is difficult to conceive of a case in recent memory that has generated more widespread, inflammatory and sustained media coverage” than the one against Cosby. They pointed to news clippings and posts that called him a “monster,” “sociopath” and “sexual predator.”
“The pitchforks came out in full force in the fall of 2014, when comic Hannibal Burress called Mr.