Bill Cosby’s Quaaludes Testimony Can Be Used in Assault Trial, Judge Says

Scandal-plagued comedian Bill Cosby was dealt a heavy blow in the looming sexual assault trial against him, as a judge ordered that potentially damaging deposition testimony that Cosby gave in 2005 and 2006 can be used in the case.

Cosby’s team had sought to suppress the deposition testimony, claiming that previous Montgomery County, Pennsylvania district attorney Bruce Castor had agreed not to prosecute him for the alleged sexual assault of former Temple University employee Andrea Constand.

Last December, the comedian was charged with aggravated indecent assault, following the election of a new district attorney who made the Cosby case a prominent part of his campaign.