ELKINS PARK, Pa. (AP) — The latest on the announcement of a criminal charge against Bill Cosby in Pennsylvania (all times local): 
 
 First Assistant District Attorney Kevin Steele announces a felony charge of aggravated indecent assault against comedian Bill Cosby at the Montgomery County detective bureau, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015,... (Associated Press) 
 
 3:10 p.m. 
 
 Bill Cosby has been released on $1 million bail on a sex assault charge in Pennsylvania. 
 
 Cosby was arraigned Wednesday afternoon in Elkins Park on the charge, which was filed over a 2004 encounter in his home outside Philadelphia. 
 
 Police say he was fingerprinted and photographed before being released. His next court hearing is Jan. 14. 
 
 Cosby is charged with drugging and sexually assaulting the woman. It's the first criminal case brought against the comedian out of the torrent of allegations that destroyed his good-guy image as America's Dad. 
 
 Cosby shook his head as reporters shouted questions at him before the hearing. His lawyers also didn't comment. 
 
 The 78-year-old comedian said under oath that he had consensual sexual contact with the woman. 
 
 In court, he agreed to have no contact with the accuser. 
 
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 2:50 p.m. 
 
 Bill Cosby has been arraigned on a sex assault charge in Pennsylvania and will remain free on $1 million bail pending trial. 
 
 Cosby will be fingerprinted at a police station near the Elkins Park courtroom. He did not have to enter a plea, and his next court hearing is Jan. 14. 
 
 Prosecutors say the comedian urged a former Temple University employee to take pills and drink wine at his home in 2004. Kevin Steele, Montgomery County's first assistant district attorney, says that left the woman paralyzed and unable to respond to Cosby's sexual advances — and that Cosby committed aggravated indecent assault. 
 
 Cosby shook his head as reporters shouted questions at him before the hearing. The 78-year-old comedian said under oath that he had consensual sexual contact with the woman. 
 
 In court, he agreed to have no contact with the accuser. 
 
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 2:30 p.m. 
 
 Bill Cosby has arrived at a district court outside Philadelphia for his arraignment on a sexual assault charge and shook his head as reporters shouted questions at him. 
 
 Cosby is being arraigned Wednesday afternoon on a charge filed over a 2004 encounter in his home outside Philadelphia. He stumbled briefly on his short walk from a dark-colored SUV to the door. 
 
 Prosecutors say the comedian urged the former Temple University employee to take pills he had and to drink wine. Kevin Steele, Montgomery County's first assistant district attorney, says the woman was paralyzed and unable to respond to his advances — and that Cosby committed aggravated indecent assault. 
 
 Calls to his attorneys were not immediately returned. The 78-year-old comedian said under oath that he had consensual sexual contact with the woman. 
 
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 11 a.m. 
 
 The lawyer for a woman who accuses Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2004 is praising a prosecutor for filing a criminal charge against the comedian. 
 
 Dolores Troiani says Andrea Constand appreciates the consideration and courtesy that investigators have shown in the reopened case. Troiani also says she and her client "have the utmost confidence" in the law enforcement team now handling the case. She says she otherwise will not comment on the criminal case. 
 
 Cosby is expected to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon on a sexual assault charge. 
 
 A message left with one of Cosby's civil attorneys was not immediately returned. A second did not pick up his phone. A third attorney expected to represent him in the criminal case did not return a message. 
 
 The 78-year-old comedian has said under oath that he had consensual sexual contact with the woman. 
 
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 10:25 a.m. 
 
 Bill Cosby is expected to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon on a sexual assault charge filed over a 2004 encounter in his home outside Philadelphia. 
 
 Prosecutors say the comedian urged the former Temple University employee to take pills he had and to drink wine. Kevin Steele, Montgomery County's first assistant district attorney, says the woman was paralyzed and unable to respond to his advances — and that Cosby committed aggravated indecent assault. 
 
 Steele says recently released excerpts from Cosby's deposition in a civil lawsuit led to the renewed investigation. 
 
 Steele says that after seeing the deposition material "reopening this case was not a question, rather it was our duty." 
 
 Cosby's lawyer declined to comment on the charge before the announcement. The 78-year-old comedian said under oath that he had consensual sexual contact with the woman. 
 
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 10 a.m. 
 
 Bill Cosby has been charged with sexual assault more than a decade after a former Temple University employee told police the comedian drugged and violated her at his home near Philadelphia. 
 
 It's the first criminal charge against Cosby over his conduct with women, which has received new scrutiny in the past year. 
 
 The Montgomery County prosecutor announced Wednesday that Cosby had been charged with aggravated indecent assault, a felony. It's a reversal of a decision by a previous district attorney, who declined to charge Cosby in 2005. 
 
 Cosby's lawyer declined to comment on the case before the announcement. The 78-year-old comedian previously said under oath that he had consensual sexual contact with the woman. 
 
 Prosecutors reopened the case as new evidence was unsealed in the woman's related civil case and dozens of women came forward with similar accusations. 
 
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 9:50 a.m. 
 
 Two people familiar with a prosecutor's decision say Bill Cosby will be charged in the investigation of an alleged sexual assault more than a decade ago. 
 
 The two people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Montgomery County prosecutors had yet to make the announcement. 
 
 It's the first criminal charges against Cosby over his conduct with women, which has received new scrutiny in the past year. 
 
 A former Temple University employee told police the comedian drugged and violated her at his home near Philadelphia. Prosecutors are set to announce the results of their investigation Wednesday morning. 
 
 A previous district attorney declined to charge Cosby in 2005. 
 
 The 78-year-old comedian previously said under oath that he had consensual sexual contact with the woman. 
 
 Prosecutors reopened the case as new evidence was unsealed in the woman's related civil case and dozens of women came forward with similar accusations. 
 
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 9:30 a.m. 
 
 Prosecutors in Pennsylvania are set to announce whether Bill Cosby will be charged over an encounter with a woman 12 years ago. 
 
 Montgomery County prosecutors say they will announce the results of a new investigation on Wednesday at 10 a.m. 
 
 A former Temple University employee told police the comedian drugged and violated her at his home near Philadelphia in 2004. 
 
 Cosby's lawyer declined to comment on the case before the announcement. The 78-year-old comedian previously said under oath that he had consensual sexual contact with the woman. 
 
 A previous district attorney declined to charge Cosby in 2005. Prosecutors reopened the case as new evidence was unsealed in the woman's related civil case and dozens of women came forward with similar accusations. ||||| FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, file photo, Bill Cosby leaves the Cheltenham Township Police Department where he was processed after being arraigned on a felony charge of aggravated indecent... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, file photo, Bill Cosby leaves the Cheltenham Township Police Department where he was processed after being arraigned on a felony charge of aggravated indecent assault in Elkins Park, Pa. Cosby’s lawyers will be in court Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, seeking to have... (Associated Press) 
 
 NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby and his lawyers went to court Tuesday to try to get the sexual assault case against him thrown out because of what they say was a binding commitment by a previous district attorney not to prosecute him a decade ago. 
 
 The current district attorney has said he has no record of such an agreement. 
 
 Cosby, 78, arrived for the hearing in a black SUV just before 9 a.m., dressed in a tan suit and tie. Two men held his arms for support as he walked up a ramp to the Montgomery County Courthouse, and one carried Cosby's cane. The comedian chatted with his handlers while ignoring reporters' questions. 
 
 Cosby is accused of drugging and violating former Temple University athletics employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004. 
 
 In a barrage of allegations that have destroyed Cosby's image as America's Dad, dozens of women have accused the former TV star of drugging and sexually assaulting them since the 1960s. But this is the only case in which he has been charged. 
 
 Cosby's lawyers contend that he had a deal with then-District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. in 2005 that he wouldn't be prosecuted and that he could testify freely in Constand's civil lawsuit. Castor said at the time that there was insufficient evidence to charge Cosby. 
 
 Damaging testimony from that lawsuit was released last summer, prompting Castor's successors to reopen the case and ultimately charge Cosby. He could get 10 years in prison if convicted. 
 
 Cosby admitted in the deposition that he had affairs with young models and actresses, that he obtained quaaludes to give to women he wanted to have sex with and that he gave Constand three pills at his home. He said he reached into her pants in what he insisted was consensual contact. 
 
 In an unusual twist, Castor was called to the stand at Tuesday's hearing. Castor has insisted that he worked out an oral "non-prosecution" agreement in 2005 with Walter M. Phillips Jr., a Cosby lawyer who died last year. 
 
 Castor was not immediately asked about such an agreement Tuesday. But he defended his decision not to bring charges, testifying that he saw Constand's year-long delay in reporting the allegations, inconsistencies in her statements and her contact with a lawyer before going to police as red flags. 
 
 Castor said Constand's delay in going to authorities was of "enormous significance" in his consideration of the case. He said it thwarted his ability to test her hair or fingernails for evidence she was drugged. 
 
 Still, Castor said, he investigated the case thoroughly because he wanted to show authorities in Constand's native Canada that celebrities don't get preferential treatment in America. 
 
 Kevin Steele, the newly elected DA who is pursuing the case, has said Cosby would need an immunity agreement in writing to get the case thrown out. He has said he has no evidence one exists. 
 
 Anne Poulin, a law professor at Villanova University, said the defense has a high bar to meet to get the case thrown out early on. But "if they can win without this ever going to trial, then they've done their client a big service." 
 
 It was not immediately clear when Common Pleas Judge Steven T. O'Neill would rule. ||||| Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. 
 
 NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby's retrial on sexual assault charges will be delayed until the spring to allow his new high-profile legal team to get up to speed. 
 
 Bill Cosby (R) departs from the Montgomery County Courthouse on June 15, 2017 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Tracie Van Auken / EPA file 
 
 The trial was supposed to start Nov. 6 but the judge postponed jury selection until mid-March after a request from defense lawyer Tom Mesereau, best known for representing Michael Jackson. 
 
 In a surprise move, Cosby's attorneys announced in court Tuesday that they won't ask for the jury to be picked outside of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where the encounter at the center of the case happened and where trial will be held. 
 
 The jury in the first trial was chosen in Allegheny County after the defense complained that pre-trial publicity made a fair trial in Montgomery County impossible. Those jurors deadlocked, forcing a mistrial in June. 
 
 Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, who made the decision to retry Cosby, expressed disappointment at the delay. 
 
 "We're ready to proceed," he told reporters outside the courthouse. "It's a case that deserves a verdict." 
 
 A lone protester, sexual-assault survivor advocate Bird Milliken, marched in front of the courthouse wit a sign that read "Spring 2018, We're Ready For You, Tom/Cosby," the Guns N Roses song "Welcome to the Jungle" blasting from her megaphone. 
 
 "It's disappointing, but it gives the rest of us more time to prepare," she said of the delay, adding that plans to hold nightly vigils in front of the courthouse during the second trial. 
 
 Cosby, 80, is charged with giving Andrea Constand pills and then molesting her during a visit to his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004. She did not report the encounter to police for a year, and struck a civil settlement with Cosby after prosecutors at the time declined to charge him. 
 
 After allegations from other women began piling up in 2014, the DA's office brought charges of indecent aggravated assault against Cosby in connection with the Constand incident. 
 
 The case represents the only criminal charges stemming from dozens of accusations ranging from groping to rape and spanning decades. Cosby has denied all the allegations, pleaded not guilty to attacking Constand, and sued some of his accusers for defamation. 
 
 He did not take the stand at his first trial, which ended after 52 hours of deliberations failed to produce a verdict. Several jurors told reporters after the trial that the panel was deeply divided throughout the deliberations. 
 
 "It was hopeless, from the first time on," one juror said later. 
 
 Related: Juror Says Cosby Talked His Way Into Guilty Vote 
 
 Tuesday's hearing marked Cosby's first return to court since the mistrial. He arrived on the arm of his spokesman and appeared to be in a relaxed mood, joking around with his new and old lawyers before the hearing got underway. 
 
 The attorneys who represented him at the first trial, hard-charging Philadelphia lawyer Brian McMonagle and Los Angeles civil litigator Angela Agrusa, have withdrawn from the criminal case. Agrusa will continue to work on civil matters for Cosby. 
 
 Taking their place are Mesereau, former federal prosecutor Kathleen Bliss and prominent Philadelphia attorney Sam Silver. 
 
 Mesereau — who bills himself as "unconventional" and "unpredictable" — represented Michael Jackson when he was prosecuted in 2005 for allegedly molesting a child; the star was acquitted. He also represented "Baretta" star Robert Blake, who was acquitted in 2005 of murdering his wife. 
 
 More recently, Mesereau defended former Playboy Playmate Dani Mathers after she was charged with taking and posting a photo of a naked older woman at her gym; she struck a no-jail plea deal. 
 
 After the hearing, Mesereau declined to answer reporters' questions but did pause to pose for pictures with Cosby outside the courthouse. 
 
 Before he was retained by Cosby, Mesereau drew parallels between his prosecution and the Michael Jackson case. 
 
 "The worldwide media had already condemned him and basically discarded him as trash," Mesereau said of the pop star last year. "I see something similar happening now." 
 
 "I don't know Mr. Cosby," Mesereau said then. "I don't know the evidence. I don't know the accuser. I just think he has the right to a fair trial. And having been through what I went through with Michael Jackson, I'm a little alarmed by the groundswell of opposition [to Cosby]."
– Bill Cosby was charged Wednesday with felony sexual assault, and the comedian's attorney has already started her public defense campaign. In her view, the whole case is just a game of "political football" initiated by a new Pennsylvania district attorney, Reuters reports. "What we have is the fulfillment of a campaign promise from a prosecutor who used ... the climate about the allegations against my client in order to get into office," Monique Pressley said on Good Morning America Thursday, per the news agency. The New York Daily News notes that Montgomery County DA Kevin Steele referenced the Cosby case in ads before the November elections, going after opponent Bruce Castor Jr., who didn't charge Cosby in 2005 when Castor was the county DA and Andrea Constand accused Cosby of sexual assault. Pressley also spoke on CBS This Morning and NBC's Today show, where she said Cosby won't make any plea deal. "My client is not guilty, and there will be no consideration on our part of any sort of arrangement," she said, per Reuters. Pressley was also forced to defend whisperings that the 78-year-old Cosby's supposedly feeble appearance at his arraignment Wednesday in Elkins Park, Pa., was a strategic part of his defense ploy. "I don't really understand it," Pressley said on GMA, per ABC News. "He's a tall man of sufficient girth. He's … blind, so he does use a cane so that he can know what's coming in front of him and he does require assistance because of that and that is who the DA's office has chosen to charge." She adds, per the Daily News: "That's not a defense of a crime, that's just a fact." Meanwhile, Constand, the woman behind the case that may put Cosby behind bars, posted a message early Thursday morning on Twitter, imploring, "Let's all stay classy plz! That includes anybody who may be inserting their opinion as to whether anything was fully investigated period." (Here's the rundown on some of the Cosby coverage so far.)