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Cosby Conviction Overturned! Attorney says, “We Are on Our Way Now to the Prison to Pick Him Up”

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentJuly 1, 2021

The state Supreme Court ruled that Cosby’s deal with former prosecutor Bruce Castor should have been honored. In a phone call with Cosby attorney Jennifer Bonjean, she states, “I am thrilled! I haven’t made my way through the entire opinion yet, but it seems that the court agrees with what we knew all along, that Mr. Cosby never should have been prosecuted in the first place. If a prosecutor’s word is not his bond, then we as a society — and the entire criminal justice system — is in trouble.”

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#ACCESS901: Memoir Provides Lens to ‘See’ Cyntoia Brown-Long

Joy Doss, Special to the New Tri-State DefenderOctober 18, 2019

As for “Young Cyntoia” specifically, “I would tell her, you don’t know half the things that you think you know,” she said. “I thought I knew better than my mother and anyone else around me. You couldn’t tell me anything! I would tell (Young Cyntoia), ‘you have no idea what life is really about. You’re not equipped, you’re not ready…to be grown… God has it so you’re in your home with your parents for a reason… so you learn the ways of the world.’”