Report: Bill Cosby Wants Compensation for Serving Time in Prison

By Teddy Grant Published: July 16, 2021

Report: Bill Cosby Wants Compensation for Serving Time in Prison

FILE - In this April 26, 2018 file photo, Bill Cosby, center, leaves the the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., after being convicted of drugging and molesting a woman. The actor has spent more than two years in prison since he was convicted of sexual assault in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. Now the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to hear his appeal of the conviction on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. The arguments will focus on the trial judge's decision to let five other accusers testify for the prosecution. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Bill Cosby is reportedly seeking compensation for the time served in prison, News Nation Now reported.

“Mr. Cosby was given an unwanted two-year and ten-month vacation that he never asked for. His constitutional rights were abolished, his due process was stripped away from him,” Cosby’s representative Andrew Wyatt said.

The comedian also wants the Montgomery County district attorney, Kevin Steele, who handled his case, and Judge Steven O’Neill to resign, according to Wyatt.

In 2018, the 83-year-old was sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a Temple University employee, at his Pennsylvania home.

In June, Cosby was released from a Pennsylvania prison after the state’s supreme court overturned his sexual assault conviction, citing an agreement with the previous district attorney who said that the comedian wouldn’t be charged criminally if he testified in a civil case.