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How the BBC put Bill Clinton in prison

2 July 2021

8:56 AM

2 July 2021

8:56 AM

Yesterday the US comedian Bill Cosby left prison, after the Philadelphia Supreme Court overturned his conviction for sexual assault in 2018. The 83-year-old Cosby had served two years of a three-to-ten-year sentence, before his verdict was overturned on Wednesday because of a ‘process violation’.

For a brief moment yesterday though, it appeared that the story could have even greater political implications, after a BBC News at Ten report.

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