Bill Cosby’s Lawyers File For Release After Prison Officer Tests Positive For Coronavirus
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Bill Cosby’s lawyers want him out of jail and are filing a motion to get him released and put on house arrest after at least one prison officer reportedly became infected with the Coronavirus.
As we reported, Cosby, 82, at SCI Phoenix in Montgomery County for his ten-year sentence, but his attorneys are sending a petition to superior court so that the disgraced comedian can serve his time on house arrest during the Coronavirus epidemic.
The move by Cosby’s lawyers comes as the Trump administration considers the release of some federal prisoners in an attempt to reduce the risk of a larger outbreak of coronavirus in the nation’s prison system.
Cosby’s representative, Andrew Wyatt spoke to Page Six, “We believe it is only a matter of time before Mr. Cosby’s prison likely falls victim to the virus, such a confined space is the perfect place for a virus to spread rapidly, it is hazardous to the prison staff and vulnerable inmates.”
“Bill Cosby is no detriment or danger to the community. He can’t go anywhere, he is elderly, he is blind. He can stay under house arrest with an ankle bracelet, as he did before, with his wife taking care of him. Let him do his time at home.”
Wyatt revealed that more than one officer had tested positive for the Coronavirus and despite Cosby not being tested, his underlying health conditions put him at risk of serious health complications.
Donald Trump previously spoke on releasing elderly and “totally nonviolent prisoners”
“We are not doing this because he is Bill Cosby, our concern is that he is 82, he is blind and has close contact with workers who take him to his medical appointments every day in a wheelchair, they take him for his meals and clean his cell. If they get infected, they could pass it on to him,” added Wyatt.
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