Courts & Law
Ahead of opening statements in the sexual assault trial of Bill Cosby, the team behind WHYY’s podcast Cosby Unraveled takes an in-d ...
Air Date: June 4, 2017
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6 key people to watch at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial
Comedian Bill Cosby goes on trial Monday on sexual assault charges stemming from a 2004 encounter at his home near Philadelphia. H ...
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The Cosby trial will not be televised — or tweeted live
The sexual assault trial of Bill Cosby starting Monday in Montgomery County has been called the biggest Hollywood celebrity trial in the ...
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U.S. incarceration rates too high, too lengthy, too arbitrary
I know not whether laws be right,Or whether laws be wrong,All that we know who lie in jail,Is th ...
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11 people seated on Cosby jury; defense sees race bias
Bill Cosby’s lawyers accused Pennsylvania prosecutors of trying to “systematically” keep blacks off the jury Tuesday af ...
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3 white men, 2 white woman picked for Bill Cosby jury so far
The panel that will decide Bill Cosby’s fate in his sex assault trial began to take shape Monday with the selection of five jurors, ...
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Cosby jury pool: One third say they’ve formed opinion on his guilt
One-third of the potential jurors questioned in Bill Cosby’s sex assault case Monday said they’ve formed opinions about his g ...
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The good, the bad, and the ugly of free speech
Free speech is easy to support when you like what’s being said, but that’s not how the First Amendment works. This is somethi ...
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Delaware dropped 2010 child kidnapping case against suspect in girl’s April abduction
The police accusation that Daniel M. Santucci Jr. abducted and sexually abused a 4-year-old girl in April, then tossed her in a pond to d ...
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Leanne: Overstaying her tourist visa to nurse family ties
“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY that looks at the per ...
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Ivonne and Sophia: Learning to cope with fears of deportation
“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY that looks at the personal immigration stories of individuals who are living in the Philadelphia region without legal status.
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Ody: Returning to Indonesia 15 years later, and nearly blind
“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY/NewsWorks that looks at the personal ...
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‘Alex’ and ‘Viktor’: Musicians not welcome at home, not at home in the U.S.
“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY/NewsWorks that looks ...
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How a district attorney can really get tough on crime
We’ve come to the time in the district attorney race when the appeals to fear come to the fore. Candidates claim they will be ̶ ...
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