Michael Jackson’s ex-attorney to defend Cosby

The onetime attorney of past due pop icon Michael Jackson will now defend disgraced television icon invoice Cosby in his upcoming re-trial for sexual attack, the actor’s spokesman stated Monday.

After Brian McMonagle end earlier this month, his California-primarily based co-counsel Angela Agrusa also filed a motion asking to be setting out the trial. The pair helped Cosby relaxed a hung jury on trial for sexual assault in June.

los angeles-based totally Tom Mesereau — regarded for his flamboyant fashion and long white hair — will now lead Cosby’s felony group, spokesman Andrew Wyatt said in a declaration.

also on Cosby’s team will be Kathleen Bliss and Sam Silver, the assertion said.

The sixty seven-12 months-vintage Mesereau is understood for buying an acquittal for Jackson in June 2005 after a four-month trial on child molestation charges.

he's going to now guard Cosby, the pioneering African American actor and comic who's because of cross again on trial in November for allegedly drugging and molesting former Temple university basketball reliable Andrea Constand at his Philadelphia domestic in 2004.

decide Steven O’Neill declared a mistrial in June when a jury did not attain a unanimous verdict on 3 counts of annoyed indecent attack after extra than 50 hours of deliberations in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

The impasse became a victory of types for Cosby, now frail and isolated, who risked spending the relaxation of his lifestyles in jail if convicted.

but the trial irrevocably damaged the as soon as towering icon of us popular subculture, loved by millions as “the united states’s Dad” and fine acknowledged for his seminal position as a father and obstetrician on hit 1984-92 tv collection “The Cosby show.”

around 60 ladies have publicly accused the Emmy-triumphing actor of being a serial sexual predator, but the trial changed into the handiest crook case brought in opposition to Cosby as maximum of the alleged abuse took place too long ago to prosecute.

Cosby has maintained his innocence, saying his relations with Constand had been consensual.

Mesereau is due in courtroom on Tuesday for a pre-trial hearing, Wyatt said.

In a July interview approximately the case to movie star information website TMZ, Mesereau stated the trial become a “waste of time” as prosecutors had “a completely vulnerable case.”