News Roundup

Late last week a Pennsylvania jury convicted Bill Cosby of three counts of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004.  A prior trial involving the same offenses ended in a deadlocked jury mistrial.  Cosby faces up to 30 years in prison, but news reports suggest that he is unlikely to receive the maximum sentence.  Cosby has faced years of accusations that he had a regular practice of drugging and sexually assaulting women.  Keep reading for more news. Cosby.   In the wake of Cosby’s conviction, several colleges and universities rescinded honorary degrees they had awarded to Cosby over the years; Yale’s decision to do so was a first in the school’s 300-year history.  If the UNC Board of Trustees follows Chancellor Carol Folt’s recommendation that UNC do the same, that also would be a historic first. The New York Times ran a positive profile of one of the prosecutors involved in the Cosby case, Kristen Gibbons Feden.  Cosby’s wife Camille Cosby said the conviction was a “tragedy” and “mob justice, not real justice.”  Camille Cosby compared her husband’s case to the wrongful conviction of Darryl Hunt. Genealogy.  Last week the News Roundup noted the arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., a man suspected of being the notorious Golden State Killer.  New details about the investigation have emerged and have raised privacy concerns about genealogy websites.  It appears that investigators took DNA evidence collected from the crime scenes and submitted it to popular genealogy websites.  The results allowed law enforcement to identify the suspect’s [...]