In April 2018, a jury of seven men and five women convicted comedian Bill Cosby of three counts of sexual assault against Andrea Constand. A Temple University's women's basketball operations director at the time, Constand visited Cosby's home in 2004 to establish a mentoring relationship. Cosby offered Constand three round blue pills to allegedly help her relax and then assaulted her. While she told police about the encounter in 2005, prosecutors declined to press charges and a civil suit was settled in 2006. While dozens of women publicly alleged Cosby sexually assaulted them, he was only formally charged with assaulting Constand due to the statute of limitations expiring in other cases. At the trial, however, five other women testified as prior bad act witnesses that Cosby also drugged and assaulted them. The assaults allegedly occurred from the 1980s through 2004 and involved similar narratives. After his conviction, Cosby was sentenced to three to ten years in state prison. He will also be classified for the rest of his life as a "sexually violent predator with mandatory registration and counseling. 
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