Actor and comedian Bill Cosby has been granted the right to appeal his 2018 sexual assault conviction.
The case will now head to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, The Associated Press reported.
Cosby has been in jail near Philadelphia for almost two years of a three- to 10-year sentence. A jury convicted him of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004.
The justices will review two parts of the case that Cosby’s lawyers are challenging in which a judge allowed prosecutors to call other accusers and to introduce evidence that Cosby gave quaaludes to women in the past, the AP reported.
The past actions came up originally in a civil lawsuit in which Cosby testified after he came to an agreement with a former prosecutor that he would not be charged in a case, the AP reported.
The agreement was not in writing, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The deposition was used in his 2018 trial.
As for the testimony from the other accusers, their cases could not be prosecuted because they were outside of the criminal statute of limitations, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
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