比尔·科斯比在宾夕法尼亚州最高法院推翻了他的性侵犯指控后，他于周三被释放。

官员们告诉美国广播公司新闻，周三下午，83岁的科斯比走出了宾夕法尼亚州蒙哥马利县的凤凰州立监狱。

科斯比的公关安德鲁·怀亚特周三早些时候告诉美国广播公司新闻，他将在监狱接科斯比。

费城ABC电视台WPVI的航拍镜头显示，考斯比在宾夕法尼亚州埃尔金斯公园(Elkins Park)的豪宅里下了车，穿着一件栗色t恤和宽松的裤子。当人们帮他走进家时，他亮出了一个和平标志。

考斯比后来从家里出来，走到他车道的尽头，在那里他和怀亚特以及他的律师一起向媒体发表讲话。当记者要求他对不再被监禁做出回应时，科斯比笑了，但他拒绝说话。

“我们今天看到的是正义，所有美国人的正义，”怀亚特说。

这位演员在推特上发布了一份声明，写道:“我从未改变我的立场和我的故事。我一直坚持自己的清白。感谢所有支持我度过这一磨难的粉丝、支持者和朋友。特别感谢宾夕法尼亚州最高法院维护法治。”

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比尔·科斯比和他的律师詹尼弗·邦让以及发言人甲一起走向媒体发表简短讲话.

科斯比的上诉律师之一珍妮弗·邦让(Jennifer Bonjean)说，她和科斯比法律团队的其他人对他回家感到“激动”。

“他服了三年的冤狱。他这样做是有尊严的，有原则的，他是其他囚犯的导师，”邦让说。“他真的，正如我所说，做的时间。时间不适合他。”

她还感谢州最高法院证明“他们不受公众舆论的影响，坦率地说，下级法院不受影响。”

考斯比于2018年9月被判处3至10年有期徒刑，罪名是涉嫌在2004年对坦普尔大学前雇员安德里亚·康斯坦德(Andrea Constand)实施吸毒和性侵犯。科斯比服刑约三年。

康斯坦德和她的律师在一份声明中说:“今天关于比尔·科斯比的多数决定不仅令人失望，而且令人担忧，因为它可能会阻止那些在刑事司法系统中为性侵犯寻求正义的人报告或参与对攻击者的起诉，或者可能迫使受害者在提起刑事或民事诉讼之间做出选择。”。

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代表前总统唐纳德·特朗普并为其辩护的律师布鲁斯·卡斯特在.

去年，宾夕法尼亚最高法院同意听两点科斯比呼吁推翻他的2018年性侵犯定罪。

在周三发布的一项裁决中，州最高法院得出结论，由于喜剧演员与蒙哥马利县前检察官布鲁斯·卡斯特达成协议，科斯比的起诉本不应发生。布鲁斯·卡斯特同意，如果科斯比在康斯坦德对他提起的民事案件中作证，他不会对他提起刑事诉讼。

在作证期间，考斯比发表了有罪声明，卡斯特的继任者凯文·斯蒂尔(Kevin R. Steele)曾在2015年指控考斯比。

康斯坦德在声明中说，推翻定罪的决定是由“程序性技术问题”引起的。

卡斯特是同一个律师代表前总统唐纳德·特朗普在前总统今年早些时候的第二次弹劾审判中。

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比尔·科斯比在从C州释放后，从接他的车里出来时得到了帮助..

宾夕法尼亚州最高法院的法官在他们长达79页的裁决中写道:“赋予我们联邦检察官的自由裁量权，无论多么巨大，都不意味着它的行使不受正当程序的约束。”

法官们写道:“当无条件的指控决定被公开做出，目的是诱导被告采取行动和依赖，当被告这样做对他不利时(在某些情况下是根据律师的建议)，剥夺被告从该决定中获得的利益是对基本公平的侮辱，特别是当它导致十多年来放弃的刑事起诉时。”

该决定还说，科斯比是违宪的“强制诱饵和开关”的受害者。

科斯比相信自己可以免于刑事起诉，他在康斯坦德的律师长达四天的作证中作证，民事诉讼在2006年以300多万美元结案。

“实际上，在科斯比被刑事指控的那一刻，他受到了伤害:他之前没收的所有财产，以及民事案件中没收财产的后果，都是徒劳的，”法官们写道。

科斯比的刑事指控不能重审。

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斯蒂尔在周三下午的一份声明中说:“陪审团认定他有罪，现在他在一个与犯罪事实无关的程序问题上获得了自由。”

斯蒂尔称赞康斯坦德“勇敢站出来，在漫长的磨难中保持坚定，以及所有其他有过类似经历的女性。”

斯蒂尔说:“我希望这一决定不会抑制受害者对性侵犯的报道。”。“我办公室的检察官将继续跟踪证据，无论证据指向何处和何人。我们仍然相信，没有人可以凌驾于法律之上——包括那些有钱、有名、有权的人。”

在费城接受KYW新闻广播采访时，卡斯特说他对州最高法院的判决“并不惊讶”。

卡斯特告诉电台，“我只能回忆起以前在一个案件中发生过一次，检察官的行为如此恶劣，以至于最高法院驳回了这个案件，没有发回重审。”“所以这很罕见，但发生在考斯比先生身上的事情真的非常令人震惊，他们对他所做的事情绝不应该发生在任何社会阶层的任何美国公民身上。”

律师格洛丽亚·艾尔里德(Gloria Allred)代表几名女性在科斯比的审判中作证，以支持检方对这位艺人“以前的不良行为”的证据，并证明一种做法模式。

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比尔·科斯比原告安德里亚·康斯坦德与律师多洛雷斯·特罗亚尼(右)和德莱尼·亨德反应...

“尽管宾夕法尼亚最高法院做出了裁决，但这是一场重要的正义斗争，”阿尔里德告诉美国广播公司新闻直播。“即使法院以技术为由推翻了定罪，它也不能证明比尔·科斯比的行为是正确的，也不应被解释为他没有从事被指控的行为。”

贾尼斯·贝克·金内是在考斯比刑事审判中作证的女性之一，她声称考斯比在1982年对她进行了性侵犯，当时她是内华达州里诺市的一名24岁的酒保。周三，她告诉美国广播公司新闻直播，她被这个消息“震惊”。

金内说:“我很震惊，我的胃都有点打结了。”。“当如此多的人站出来，如此多的女人说出她们的真相时，仅仅一个小小的法律术语就可以推翻这一点。”

另一名原告维多利亚·瓦伦蒂诺(Victoria Valentino)是一名前《花花公子》模特，她没有在审判中作证，但声称考斯比年轻时给她下药并对她进行了性侵犯，她告诉美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)，一听到考斯比将被释放，“我的胃就在抽搐”。

“我对整件事的不公正深感痛心，”瓦伦蒂诺说。“你知道，他是个反社会者，他是个连环强奸犯。”

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2018年9月24日，比尔·科斯比抵达蒙哥马利郡法院参加判决听证会..

她说，科斯比获释几天前，她和其他科斯比原告收到宾夕法尼亚州官员的一封信，通知他们科斯比的假释请求被拒绝。

科斯比坚称自己是无辜的，他要求提前假释的请求在5月份被驳回，此前惩教官员称他拒绝参加监狱性侵犯项目。

在对定罪的上诉中，Cosby的律师辩称，初审法官允许Cosby在20世纪70年代与女性进行自愿性接触时使用quaaludes是错误的。

两个下级法院，包括一个由宾夕法尼亚州高等法院法学家组成的三人陪审团，此前曾拒绝推翻喜剧演员的信念。

尽管对他的指控铺天盖地，科斯比坚持说他从来没有进行过非性行为。

Bill Cosby released from prison after conviction vacated

Bill Cosbywas released from prison Wednesday after his conviction on sexual assault charges was overturned by Pennsylvania's highest court.

The 83-year-old Cosby walked out of the State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Wednesday afternoon, officials told ABC News.

Cosby's publicist, Andrew Wyatt, told ABC News earlier Wednesday that he was going to pick Cosby up at the prison.

Aerial footage from Philadelphia ABC station WPVI showed Cosby getting out of a car at his Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, mansion wearing a maroon T-shirt and baggy trousers. He flashed a peace sign as people helped him walk into his home.

Cosby later emerged from his home and walked to the end of his driveway where he stood with Wyatt and his lawyers as they addressed the media. Cosby smiled as reporters asked him to respond to no longer being incarcerated, but he declined to speak.

"What we saw today was justice, justice for all Americans," Wyatt said.

The actor released a statement on Twitter, writing, "I have never changed my stance nor my story. I have always maintained my innocence. Thank you to all my fans, supporters and friends who stood by me through this ordeal. Special thanks to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for upholding the rule of law."

One of Cosby's appellate attorneys, Jennifer Bonjean, said she and the rest of Cosby's legal team were "thrilled" to have him home.

"He served three years of an unjust sentence. He did it with dignity, principle and he was a mentor to other inmates," Bonjean said. "He was really, as I say, doing the time. The time was not doing him."

She also thanked the state Supreme Court for demonstrating "they were impervious to the court of public opinion, which frankly the lower courts were not."

Cosby was sentenced in September 2018 to three to 10 years in state prison for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004. Cosby served about three years of his sentence.

"Today’s majority decision regarding Bill Cosby is not only disappointing but of concern in that it may discourage those who seek justice for sexual assault in the criminal justice system from reporting or participating in the prosecution of the assailant or may force a victim to choose between filing either a criminal or civil action," Constand and her lawyers said in a statement.

Last year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Courtagreed to hear two pointsin Cosby's appeal to overturn his 2018sexual assaultconviction.

In a ruling released Wednesday, the state Supreme Court concluded that Cosby's prosecution should never have occurred due to a deal the comedian cut with former Montgomery County prosecutor Bruce Castor, who agreed not to criminally prosecute Cosby if he gave a deposition in a civil case brought against him by Constand.

During that deposition, Cosby made incriminating statements that Castor's successor, Kevin R. Steele, used to charge Cosby in 2015.

Constand said in her statement that the decision to overturn the conviction resulted from "a procedural technicality."

Castor is the same lawyer who went on torepresent former President Donald Trumpduring the ex-president's second impeachment trial earlier this year.

"The discretion vested in our Commonwealth's prosecutors, however vast, does not mean that its exercise is free of the constraints of due process," the Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices wrote in their 79-page decision.

"When an unconditional charging decision is made publicly and with the intent to induce action and reliance by the defendant, and when the defendant does so to his detriment (and in some instances upon the advice of counsel), denying the defendant the benefit of that decision is an affront to fundamental fairness, particularly when it results in a criminal prosecution that was foregone for more than a decade," the justices wrote.

The decision went on to say Cosby was the victim of an unconstitutional "coercive bait-and-switch."

Believing he had immunity from criminal prosecution, Cosby testified during four days of depositions by Constand's attorneys, and the civil lawsuit was settled for more than $3 million in 2006.

"As a practical matter, the moment that Cosby was charged criminally, he was harmed: all that he had forfeited earlier, and the consequences of that forfeiture in the civil case, were for naught," the justices wrote.

Cosby cannot be retried on the criminal charges.

"He was found guilty by a jury and now goes free on a procedural issue that is irrelevant to the facts of the crime," Steele said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.

Steele commended Constand "for her bravery in coming forward and remaining steadfast throughout this long ordeal, as well as all of the other women who have shared similar experiences."

"My hope is that this decision will not dampen the reporting of sexual assaults by victims," Steele said. "Prosecutors in my office will continue to follow the evidence wherever and to whomever it leads. We still believe that no one is above the law -- including those who are rich, famous and powerful."

In an interview with KYW Newsradio in Philadelphia, Castor said he was "not surprised" by the state Supreme Court's decision.

"I can only ever recall it happening once before in a case that the prosecutor's behavior was so egregious that the Supreme Court threw the case out and didn’t remand for a new trial," Castor told the radio station. "So it is rare, but what happened to Mr. Cosby was really egregious and what they did to him should never happen to any American citizen at any social strata."

Attorney Gloria Allred represented several women who testified at Cosby's trial to bolster the prosecution's evidence of "prior bad acts" against the entertainer and to prove a pattern of practice.

"Despite the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision, this was an important fight for justice," Allred told ABC News Live. "And even though the court overturned the conviction on technical grounds, it did not vindicate Bill Cosby's conduct and should not be interpreted as a statement or a finding that he did not engage in the acts of which he has been accused."

Janice Baker Kinney, one of the women who testified at Cosby's criminal trial alleging that he sexually assaulted her in 1982 when she was a 24-year-old bartender in Reno, Nevada, told ABC News Live on Wednesday she was "stunned" by the news.

"I'm shocked, and my stomach's kind of in a knot over this," Kinney said. "Just one little legalese can overturn this when so many people came forward, so many women have told their truths."

Another accuser, Victoria Valentino, a former Playboy model who didn't testify at the trial but claimed Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her when she was a young woman, told ABC News that "my stomach is lurching" upon hearing Cosby would be released.

"I am deeply distressed about the injustice of the whole thing," Valentino said. "You know, he's a sociopath, he's a serial rapist."

She said Cosby's release came just days after she and the other Cosby accusers received a letter from Pennsylvania officials advising them that Cosby's request for parole was denied.

Cosby, who has maintained his innocence, had his petition for early parole denied in May after corrections officials cited his refusal to participate in prison sex offender programs.

In an appeal of the conviction, Cosby's lawyers argued that the trial judge erred in allowing Cosby's prior deposition about using quaaludes during consensual sexual encounters with women in the 1970s.

Two lower courts, including a three-judge panel of Pennsylvania Superior Court jurists, had previouslyrefused to overturnthe comedian's conviction.

Despite the deluge of accusations against him, Cosby has maintained he never engaged in nonconsensual sex.