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 NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Lawyers for Bill Cosby sought to introduce evidence about the sexual orientation of his accuser, Andrea Constand, but the judge overseeing his sexual assault trial wouldn't let them. 
 
 In a filing laced with outrage, prosecutors objected to the defense motion, calling it "victim-shaming" and arguing it would violate Pennsylvania's rape shield law, which says an alleged victim's sexual past is not admissible. 
 
 The defense motion has not been made public, and Cosby's team did not respond to a request for comment. The judge denied the motion on Tuesday, and Constand's sexuality has not been directly addressed during the first four days of the trial. 
 
 Constand, 44, who says Cosby drugged and molested her in 2004, told police in a 2005 interview that she is gay But that she had a boyfriend when she was 14 and sexual contact with a man when she was in her late 20s. The 79-year-old comedian has claimed he didn't know that until police investigating her complaint informed him. 
 
 Related: Andrea Constand's Mother Confronts Bill Cosby at Trial 
 
 Cosby's lawyers, according to the prosecution's filing, had argued that by not revealing to Cosby that she was gay, Constand was guilty of "conceal[ment] and deceit." 
 
 The DA's office called the defense position "extraordinary and inflammatory." 
 
 "Defendant seems to desire that those with a sexual orientation different from his should readily identify themselves — perhaps with a scarlet letter — at their first encounter with another person," the DA's office wrote. 
 
 "Defendant puts a new twist on an old argument: that because Ms. Constand did not reveal this most personal detail about her life she must have been asking for defendant to drug and sexually assault her." 
 
 Constand's civil attorney, Dolores Troiani, told NBC News that while she had not seen the defense motion, she was "appalled" by what she read of it in the prosecution's response. She said she was grateful to the DA's office "for their professionalism and the manner in which they have handled this difficult case and protected the rights of all victims." 
 
 Andrea Constand walks to the courtroom during Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., on June 6, 2017. Matt Rourke / AP 
 
 Cosby has pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated indecent assault in connection with the 2004 encounter with Constand, who at the time worked for Temple University, where the star was a trustee. 
 
 He has also denied accusations from dozens of other women who have publicly accused him of sexual misconduct. There are no criminal charges connected to those allegations. ||||| PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby's lawyers filed a motion Tuesday to prevent jurors at his upcoming sex-assault trial from hearing the actor admit giving women quaaludes, money or educational funds, saying the testimony would unfairly prejudice them. 
 
 "The testimony about quaaludes and the alleged provision of money or educational funds is quintessentially the kind of evidence that causes 'unfair prejudice,'" Cosby's lawyers wrote in advance of a hearing on the issue Monday. 
 
 Cosby acknowledged in a decade-old deposition that he gave one woman quaaludes and a string of women alcohol or pills before sex. He also said that he offered some women money or an education fund. 
 
 However, Common Pleas Judge Steven O'Neill has ruled that most of them can't testify, so the defense wants his deposition testimony about them excluded as well. 
 
 Cosby, 79, is charged with drugging and molesting Andrea Constand, a then-Temple University basketball team manager, in 2004. 
 
 Dozens of other women have made similar accusations, but O'Neill will allow only one of them to testify, a woman who worked for his agent and said she was drugged and assaulted in 1996. She is not part of the deposition because she had not yet come forward. 
 
 Cosby, in the deposition, said he had gotten seven prescriptions for quaaludes in the 1970s to give women before sex. He said he did not use quaaludes or other drugs himself. The powerful sedative was banned in the U.S. in 1983, and Cosby said he no longer had any on hand when he befriended Constand 20 years later. 
 
 "Quaaludes have not been available in this country for two decades," lawyers Brian McMonagle and Angela Agrusa wrote in the filing. "Any discussion of quaaludes would only divert the jury away from its duty of weighing the evidence as to Ms. Constand, the only alleged victim." 
 
 Cosby offered Constand an educational fund in a taped phone call made days after she accused him of sexual misconduct in early 2005. Constand's mother told him they just wanted an apology. Constand then went to police, and sued Cosby when prosecutors at the time declined to press charges. A new prosecutor reopened the case in 2015 after Cosby's deposition became public and more women came forward. 
 
 The trial is set to start June 5 in Montgomery County, outside of Philadelphia. Cosby has pleaded not guilty. O'Neill has said the jury can hear the taped phone call. ||||| Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. 
 
 NORRISTOWN, Pa. — As Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial opened Monday, there was a reminder of his former reputation as "America's Dad" — the actress who played his youngest daughter on TV. 
 
 Keshia Knight Pulliam, 38, who played Rudy Huxtable on "The Cosby Show," accompanied the comedian into the Montgomery County courthouse, where he stands accused of drugging and molesting a woman at his home in 2004. 
 
 Bill Cosby arrives for the first day of his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania on June 5, 2017. Brendan McDermid / Reuters 
 
 Neither Cosby nor Pulliam spoke as they entered. 
 
 Gloria Allred, the attorney who represents some of the dozens of women who have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct, called it an "historic day." 
 
 "It's the first time Mr. Cosby will have to face his accusers in criminal court," Allred said. 
 
 A handful of those women traveled to be at the green-domed courthouse in small-town Pennsylvania. 
 
 "I haven't seen him since 1969," said Victoria Valentino, 74, who says Cosby drugged and raped her in Los Angeles nearly five decades ago. 
 
 "I hope he makes eye contact because I'd love to look him in the eye and stare him down." 
 
 Related: 'No Fear': Andrea Constand Ready to Confront Cosby at Trial 
 
 Cosby, 79, is on trial for allegedly assaulting just one woman, Andrea Constand, who worked for his alma mater, Temple University. 
 
 She claims that after two years of friendship and mentorship, the star turned predator, giving her pills that incapacitated her and then molesting her while she lay "paralyzed." 
 
 Cosby has portrayed the encounter as consensual, saying he gave Constand two Benadryl pills to help her relax. He has pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated indecent assault, denied all other allegations and sued some of his accusers for defamation. 
 
 The "I Spy" actor, who says glaucoma has left him legally blind, does not intend to take the stand. Constand, who settled a lawsuit against Cosby in 2006, will testify. Other potential witnesses include: 
 
 Prior Alleged Victim No. 6: Also known by the pseudonym Kacey, she is the only one of the other accusers who can testify. A former assistant to Cosby's late agent, she alleges that in 1996, after Cosby insisted she take a pill, she woke up in bed with the half-naked entertainer. 
 
 An unnamed William Morris Agency employee who the defense contends can contradict Kacey's account of her interaction with Cosby. 
 
 A psychologist who will discuss the behavior of sex-abuse victims. Prosecutors may use her testimony to try to explain why Constand waited a year to report the alleged assault to police. 
 
 Pharmaceutical experts who will testify about the effects of Benadryl and Quaaludes, the latter of which Cosby has admitted he gave to women for sex in the 1970s. 
 
 Although the jury was chosen in the Pittsburgh area, the trial is taking place in Montgomery County in the Philadelphia suburb of Norristown. 
 
 Barricades ringed the columned courthouse on Sunday night in anticipation of big crowds, but as of 7 a.m., there were only a few spectators lined up to get in. 
 
 Bill Parker, 43, who owns a donut shop said the he thought the trial "would be an incredible event to witness." 
 
 "He has been an idol to us," Parker said. "To hear the accusations was quite a shocker." 
 
 Parker said he was "trying to remain neutral" on the question of whether Cosby attacked Constand. "But I'm already disappointed he confessed to extramarital affairs," he said. "It doesn't connect with the man we thought he was." 
 
 Other local residents said they had not paid much attention to the legal drama that had played out at the courthouse over the last year. 
 
 "I don't know what's happening," said one 15-year-old walking by the stately building. "Who is Bill Cosby?" ||||| Bill Cosby walks from the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial, Tuesday, June 6, 2017, in Norristown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) (Associated Press) 
 
 NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby's chief accuser said she shot down the actor's casual advances twice before she found herself paralyzed and unable to fight him off the night she took pills that he convinced her were safe herbal supplements. 
 
 Andrea Constand emerged from 12 years of silence Tuesday to testify at Cosby's sexual assault trial. 
 
 Constand, who returns to the witness stand Wednesday, described how her professional relationship with the Temple University trustee evolved into a friendship that she considered critical to the school's athletics department where she worked. 
 
 At the same time, she said, Cosby became more flirtatious and suggestive — grabbing her thigh during one encounter at his home and attempting to unbutton her pants in another. Both times, Constand said, she made it clear she didn't welcome the behavior. But she didn't feel threatened. 
 
 "I'm not here for that. I don't want that," Constand recalled telling him. 
 
 The next time she visited Cosby's home, to discuss her future with the women's basketball team, Constand said the pills Cosby gave her left her incapacitated as he grabbed her breast and touched her genitals. 
 
 She said she awoke in the early morning, quietly passing Cosby in the kitchen as she left so she could make it to her Temple office on time. She said she didn't tell anyone about the alleged assault at the time out of loyalty to the women's basketball team, which she managed. 
 
 "I did not want to stir up any trouble," she said. "He was a trustee, he was an alumni there. And I believed he supported many of the athletic programs," Constand said. 
 
 She said she also feared what Cosby might do. 
 
 "I felt that if I had gone to the police, that Mr. Cosby would retaliate and try to hurt me, that he would try to hurt me or my family in some way," she testified. 
 
 Cosby, 79, is charged with drugging and sexually abusing Constand in 2004. The TV star once dubbed America's Dad could get 10 years in prison if convicted. 
 
 His lawyers tried to poke holes in Constand's story, citing differences between her courtroom testimony and the accounts she gave to police and in a lawsuit in 2005. The defense has argued the two had a romantic relationship, that Constand wasn't incapacitated and that the sexual encounter was consensual. 
 
 Constand, an athletic 6-footer with dark curly hair, was calm and direct as she testified, frequently speaking straight to the jury. 
 
 Cosby, sitting across the room at the defense table, leaned in to listen, whispered to his lawyer and, at times, shook his head. 
 
 Before Tuesday, Constand had never spoken about Cosby in public, barred from doing so under the terms of a confidential settlement they reached in 2006. Her deposition from that lawsuit remains sealed. 
 
 Some 60 women have come forward to say Cosby sexually violated them, all but destroying his nice-guy image, but the statute of limitations for prosecution had run out in nearly every case. Constand's case is the only one in which Cosby has been charged. 
 
 The defense has pointed out that phone records show Constand called Cosby 53 times after she says he assaulted her. Constand told the jury the calls mostly involved the women's basketball team, especially around tournament time. 
 
 "He was a Temple friend, somebody I trusted. A mentor," she said. 
 
 The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are sexual assault victims unless they grant permission, which Constand has done. ||||| CLOSE Jurors at Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial have heard excerpts from the comedian's lurid, decade-old deposition, but explosive sections about him obtaining quaaludes and giving them to women before sex are expected Friday. (June 9) AP 
 
 Bill Cosby arrives with Ccmedian Joe Torry Day 5 of his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., on June 9, 2017. (Photo: Matt Rourke, AP) 
 
 NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Prosecutors in Bill Cosby's trial on sexual assault charges rested their case Friday, after five days of testimony. 
 
 The move came towards the end of a day spent reading to the jury Cosby's own words from a damaging deposition, and after calling an expert witness to describe how victims of sex crimes typically behave in a manner similar to the way accuser Andrea Constand behaved more than 13 years ago. 
 
 Another expert witness, Timothy Rohrig, a forensic toxicologist at Wichita State University, also testified, saying that the effects of Quaaludes and of Benadryl could be similar, leaving Constand in a state of near paralysis after she took pills Cosby gave her during their encounter. 
 
 Cosby's defense team will present their case next week. 
 
 Friday's proceeding included testimony from clinical psychologist Veronique Valliere and excerpts from a Cosby deposition that the prosecution hopes will help prove an alleged criminal pattern of using drugs for sex with women he desired. 
 
 Valliere, who has treated both accusers and sex offenders, testified to explain to the jury why victims may not immediately report an alleged assault (Constand waited a year) and why they may maintain contact with the alleged attacker after the crime. Both questions were raised by Cosby's defense lawyers about the behavior of Constand, who says Cosby drugged and molested her at his nearby home in 2004. He says the encounter was consensual. 
 
 Assistant District Attorney Kristen Feden asked Valliere hypothetical questions about how a person may respond if sexually assaulted by someone who is widely respected in a community or is a superior at a workplace. At the time of their encounter, Cosby was a trustee at Temple University where Constand worked as the basketball team manager. 
 
 Valliere testified that victims initially may be confused about a sexual assault, because often such assaults are not physically violent. They may be intimidated by the attacker, she said. They might engage in counter-intuitive behavior by reaching out to the attacker in an attempt to achieve a "sense of clarity." 
 
 The victim “might ask, ‘Is this somebody I depend on? Is this somebody who can retaliate and hurt me, either physically or professionally?' ” she said. 
 
 Feden said Valliere’s testimony is needed to counter defense arguments that Constand made dozens of phone calls to Cosby during the months after their encounter. "That behavior is not equivalent to being a liar or being untruthful,” Feden argued to Judge Steven O’Neill. 
 
 On cross-examination, McMonagle asked Valliere if she was testifying as a "biased" witness in the case. She said she didn't believe so. Then he showed the jury an image of a Facebook post from Valliere’s company, which linked to a newspaper article about the Cosby case. 
 
 “Victory. The case goes on!” Valliere said in a comment on the post. 
 
 Cosby says he gave Constand Benadryl on the night in question; Rohrig testified that anti-histamine could have similar effects to now-banned Quaaludes. Although it is not a hypnotic sedative, adults who take Benadryl should not drive and should avoid alcohol because it can cause blurred vision and poor muscle coordination. 
 
 “It is a central nervous system depressant, it slows the brain down,” he said. In fact, he said, it has been used to drug crime victims so often, it's one of the drugs toxicologists look for during investigations of sexual assaults. 
 
 Although Cosby, 79, has said he will not (and does not have to) take the stand to defend himself against three charges of aggravated indecent assault of Constand, 44, his own words about the encounter were used against him at his trial here. 
 
 It was one reason why Cosby's defense team, led by McMonagle and Angela Agrusa, fought — but failed — to persuade Judge O'Neill to reject the deposition as prosecution evidence. 
 
 Cosby arrived at the courthouse Friday, again accompanied by a friend and supporter, comedian Joe Torry, who was with him on Thursday as well. Cosby needs assistance to walk as he is nearly blind, appears unsteady and walks with a cane. 
 
 Andrew Wyatt, Cosby's spokesman, who's been attending the trial, told reporters on a break Friday that Cosby's wife of more than 50 years, Camille, and other family members will join him in court next week. Wyatt said Cosby told his wife to stay away from the courthouse this week so she didn't have to endure the "media circus." 
 
 Prosecutors called a Montgomery County detective to the stand late Thursday to begin reading excerpts from the 2005 deposition to the jury, a process that continued Friday. In the excerpts, Cosby claimed he had a romantic and a social relationship with Constand, and described several encounters with her in which he tried to initiate sex, including one where he touched her "somewhere between permission and rejection." 
 
 Reading from the deposition Friday, Montgomery County Det. James Reape said Cosby said that he offered to pay for Constand's education, because he feared extortion after Constand and her mother recorded one of their calls with him. He also apologized to them. 
 
 “I’m apologizing because I’m thinking this is a dirty old man with a young girl. I apologized," Cosby said in the deposition, asserting that he told Constand's mother he did not have sex with her but did penetrate her with his fingers. 
 
 Friday's testimony covered sections of the deposition in which Cosby acknowledged he acquired drugs, including Quaaludes, to give to women he sought for sex. He also acknowledged he repeatedly engaged in sexual relationships with young women he met over the years as one of the most popular and powerful men in Hollywood. 
 
 "Quaaludes were the drugs “kids were using to party,” Cosby said in the deposition, and “there were times I wanted to have them just in case.” But he insisted he had given the drug to only one woman, with her consent and knowledge. 
 
 This week the jury heard the testimony of Constand, who stuck to her story that Cosby drugged her to the point of paralysis and then molested her as she lay helpless on his couch. Her mother, Gianna Constand, also testified about what she says Cosby told her in phone calls a year later. And one of the dozens of other Cosby accusers, Kelly Johnson, also testified, accusing Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her in a Los Angeles hotel bungalow in 1996. 
 
 Cosby's deposition was taken after Constand filed suit against him in 2005, a year after their encounter at his nearby estate and also after then-district attorney Bruce Castor Jr decided there wasn't enough evidence to file criminal charges against Cosby. 
 
 Constand's lawsuit was settled and sealed in 2006, but parts of the deposition (which is hundreds of pages long) were released in the summer of 2015 by a judge. At the time, dozens of women were coming forward to accuse Cosby of drugging and/or raping them in episodes going back to the mid-1960s. 
 
 District Attorney Kevin Steele, who was elected in November 2015 after promising to pursue Cosby, cited the deposition as new evidence for reopening the long-abandoned Constand criminal case and filing charges against Cosby a few weeks before Pennsylvania's statute of limitations was to expire. 
 
 Puente reported from McLean, Va. 
 
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 NORRISTOWN, Pa. — The jury in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial deliberated for four hours on Monday night without reaching a verdict, asking to review excerpts of a deposition the comedian gave in his accuser’s 2005 civil suit. 
 
 “You need to rest up,” Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill told the panel of seven men and five women, who will return Tuesday morning to continue their deliberations. 
 
 The jurors, who are sequestered until the trial ends, got the case at 5:30 p.m. after Cosby’s lawyers put on a defense that was all of five minutes long and both sides delivered hard-hitting closing arguments. 
 
 Both Cosby's loyal wife, Camille, and his chief accuser, Andrea Constand, were in the packed courtroom Monday as the sexual assault trial moved swiftly toward a conclusion. 
 
 "I'm sorry, ma'am," defense attorney Brian McMonagle said to Mrs. Cosby as he reviewed decade-old testimony in which her husband talked about "petting" with Constand. 
 
 "When you dance outside your marriage, you have to pay the band," McMonagle said later, acknowledging Cosby's infidelities. "And you danced," he said, looking at his client. "And she deserved better!" 
 
 Related: Cosby's Accusers Say Trial is 'Moment We've Been Waiting For' 
 
 Cosby, 79, is charged with drugging and molesting Constand, 44, at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. 
 
 Constand, who worked for Temple University, where Cosby was a trustee, says she was "paralyzed" by pills he gave her; he claims it was just Benadryl and that the encounter was consensual. 
 
 The trial represents the only criminal case stemming from dozens of sexual misconduct accusations spanning decades — all of which the entertainer has vigorously denied. 
 
 Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele told jurors they needed to look no further than Cosby's own sworn statements about the night in question to convict him of assaulting Constand. 
 
 "It comes out of his own mouth. He says he gives her drugs. He says she doesn't say 'yes.' He says he put his finger..." Steele said, trailing off. "And knows the effect of what he gave her." 
 
 "All the fancy lawyering you have can't get you around your own words." 
 
 "By doing what he did on that night, he took away that ability [to consent]," Steele added. "He took that from Andrea Constand. He gave her no choice in this matter. Why? Because of what he wanted." 
 
 The DA reminded jurors that in 2005 police reports and the deposition, the man once known as "America's Dad" referred to himself as a "dirty old man," admitted he had given Quaaludes to women for sex, and described how Benadryl would make him too drowsy to perform. He replayed a recording of a call in which Cosby offered to pay for Constand's schooling after being confronted by her mother. 
 
 "All the fancy lawyering you have can't get you around your own words," Steele said. 
 
 The prosecutor told the panel it could find Cosby guilty solely based on the testimony of Constand, who spent seven hours on the stand last week, even as he acknowledged inconsistencies in what she told police. 
 
 Andrea Constand walks to the courtroom during Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., on June 6, 2017. Matt Rourke / AP 
 
 "She got up there and told to the best of her ability what happened to her," the DA said. "And you know what? There are some things in this case that should be fuzzy." 
 
 Tackling defense suggestions that Constand and Cosby were in a romantic relationship, Steele noted that Cosby told investigators that after their encounter he left her on the downstairs sofa to sleep. 
 
 "No blanket, no nothing, disheveled, clothes up around her," Steele said with a tone of disbelief that someone would treat a supposed paramour in such a way. "Come on!" 
 
 McMonagle, in a theatrical closing that swung between joviality and anger, went full-bore after the accuser's credibility. 
 
 "Ms. Constand was untruthful time and time and time again," he said, highlighting contradictions in her three statements she made to police. 
 
 In one statement, Constand told police she had never been alone with Cosby before the incident, which she said on the stand was a "mistake" born of confusion and emotional distress. 
 
 "It's not a fib. It's not a mistake!" McMonagle thundered. "It's a stone-cold lie." 
 
 Related: Bill Cosby Says He Yearns To Get Back Onstage, After Trial 
 
 The defense attorney went over dozens of phone calls that Constand made to Cosby in the weeks after the alleged assault, suggesting it wasn't how a victim would behave. 
 
 "Call! Call! Call!" he said. "Eighteen minutes… 49 minutes… 20 minutes." 
 
 "She's been sexually assaulted, ladies and gentleman," he said sarcastically. 
 
 McMonagle stalked back and forth from the jury box to a large screen where Constand and Cosby's dueling versions of events were projected. He stabbed the air with his fingers and bristled with indignation when talking about the accuser. 
 
 "Just tell the truth!" he nearly shouted at one point while reviewing Constand's Q-and-A with police. 
 
 "Can't we stop this!" he asked, holding up his hands to the ceiling in a prayerful motion. At another point, alluding to the media frenzy around the case and the parade of accusers who have come forward, he slapped the back of a leather chair and commanded, "Let's bang the drum!" 
 
 "Beware of lawyers bearing gifts." 
 
 Again and again, McMonagle reminded the jury that prosecutors did not bring charges against Cosby when they first investigated in 2005. "This case was over," he said. 
 
 The case was reopened in 2015 as allegations from other women began piling up, but the jury was not allowed to hear evidence about that. They heard only from one other accuser, Kelly Johnson, who says she was drugged and attacked in 1996. 
 
 McMonagle noted that Johnson, an assistant to Cosby's late agent, went public with her story at a 2015 press conference, represented by high-profile attorney Gloria Allred. 
 
 Bill Cosby departs Montgomery County Courthouse after the fifth day of the sexual assault trail in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on June 9, 2017. Bastiaan Slabbers / NurPhoto via Getty Images 
 
 "Beware of lawyers bearing gifts," he cautioned the jurors. 
 
 In response, Steele highlighted striking paralells between Johnson's and Constand's accounts of how Cosby allegedly gained their trust and then preyed on them, nearly a decade apart. 
 
 "This is two people totally separate — never even met each other — but look at all the similarities in terms of what happened," he said. 
 
 Related: Cosby Trial: Andrea Constand Testifies That Comedian Sexually Assaulted Her 
 
 While the wider scandal over Cosby's conduct unspooled over many months, the trial moved quickly with just six days of testimony. 
 
 Prosecutors presented 12 witnesses, including Constand and Johnson and both women's mothers. Cosby did not take the stand, despite suggestions from his spokesman that it was a possibility. 
 
 The star's lawyers called to the stand only Detective Richard Schaffer, who was used as a vehicle for the defense to move into evidence Constand's statements to police. 
 
 Several other defense witnesses were blocked by the judge because their testimony would have been hearsay or would have violated the state's rape shield law. The judge asked Cosby if he agreed with the defense decision not to present character witnesses or have him testify. 
 
 "Correct!" Cosby said in a booming voice. ||||| Bill Cosby Courted Disaster By Forcing Gay Issue in Sexual Assault Trial 
 
 Bill Cosby Courted Disaster By Forcing Gay Issue with Andrea Constand in Sexual Assault Trial 
 
 Bill Cosby arrived to the courthouse Friday with comedian Joe Torry by his side, oblivious to the fact he dodged a fatal bullet courtesy of his own lawyers. 
 
 Cosby's attorneys had filed legal docs asking the judge to allow them to introduce evidence accuser Andrea Constand was gay. He bizarrely wanted to show the jury she deceived him ... suggesting he would not have had sex with her if he knew she was gay. 
 
 The prosecution claimed it was "victim shaming" and also violates Pennsylvania law which prohibits the use of evidence involving an alleged victim's sexual past. 
 
 The judge denied the defense motion, and unless we're missing something, the admission could have nailed Cosby's coffin shut. 
 
 Andrea Constand told cops she had a boyfriend when she was 14 and had sexual contact with a man when she was in her late 20's. That said, if she wasn't into guys, the prosecution could have destroyed Cosby's argument she consented to sexual contact with the comedian. 
 
 Day 5 of the trial focuses on Cosby's own words, where he said in deposition he would give women quaaludes to dull their senses when it came to consent.
– Andrea Constand, the accuser at the center of Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial, told police during a 2005 interview that she is gay, though she had a boyfriend as a teen and sexual contact with a man in her 20s. It turns out that Cosby's defense team wanted to introduce her sexual orientation as evidence in the trial, but the judge denied that motion this week, NBC News reports. More on that and the developments in the trial: According to the prosecution's filing, Cosby's defense team says that Constand did not tell Cosby she was gay during their 2004 interactions, which amounts to "conceal[ment] and deceit." The DA's office's response to that? "Defendant puts a new twist on an old argument: that because Ms. Constand did not reveal this most personal detail about her life she must have been asking for defendant to drug and sexually assault her." TMZ's take on the issue of Constand's sexual orientation? Cosby should be grateful the judge denied his team's motion. "If she wasn't into guys, the prosecution could have destroyed Cosby's argument she consented to sexual contact with the comedian," and if the issue was brought into the trial as evidence, it "could have nailed Cosby's coffin shut." Thursday's proceedings involved the jury hearing that Cosby admitted to police during a deposition years ago that he fondled Constand after giving her Benadryl, though he insisted she consented to the behavior and showed no ill effects from the medication. Jezebel has an extensive rundown of a police investigator "sassing" the defense attorney who cross-examined him Thursday. There's more coming from the deposition on Friday, day five of the trial, USA Today and the New York Times report in previews of the day's proceedings. Notably, jurors will hear that Cosby admitted to obtaining quaaludes to give to women with whom he wanted to have sex. Already Friday, jurors have heard that in the deposition, Cosby feared he looked like a "dirty old man with a young girl" when Constand's mother called him in 2005, per the Washington Post. He said he apologized, "but my apology was, my God, I’m in trouble with these people because this is an old man and their young daughter," per the Philadelphia Inquirer. NBC notes that Cosby's wife has yet to make an appearance in the courtroom, but it has a list of supporters who have shown up. Forbes takes a look at the millions Cosby has lost over sexual assault accusations from Constand and others.