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 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 arrives for his sexual assault trial with his wife Camille Cosby, right, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Monday, June 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (Associated Press) 
 
 Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial with his wife Camille Cosby, right, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Monday, June 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (Associated Press) 
 
 NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby's trial raced toward a close Monday, with his lawyer telling the jury that the comedian and the woman who accuses him of drugging and molesting her were lovers who had enjoyed secret "romantic interludes." 
 
 Declining to take the stand in his own defense, the 79-year-old TV star left it to his attorney to argue that Cosby's 2004 sexual encounter with Andrea Constand was consensual. Lawyer Brian McMonagle said in his closing argument that while Cosby had been unfaithful to his wife, he didn't commit a crime. 
 
 McMonagle pointed out that Constand telephoned Cosby dozens of times after the alleged assault. Constand told the jury she was merely returning his calls about the women's basketball squad at Temple University, where she worked as director of team operations and he was a member of the board of trustees. 
 
 "This isn't talking to a trustee. This is talking to a lover," McMonagle said of one call that lasted 49 minutes. "Why are we running from the truth of this case — this relationship? Why? I don't understand it." 
 
 Cosby's wife of 53 years, Camille — in the courtroom for the first time in the 6-day-old trial — was stoic during the defense argument. She sat in the front row, across the aisle from Constand, who didn't react to McMonagle's two-hour closing but smiled at the end of it. 
 
 Cosby could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted. 
 
 The prosecution was expected to deliver its closing argument in the afternoon, and the jury could get the case later in the day. 
 
 Constand, 44, testified last week that Cosby gave her three blue pills and then penetrated her with her fingers against her will as she lay paralyzed and half-conscious. She sued Cosby after prosecutors in 2005 declined to press charges. 
 
 Cosby testified over a decade ago as part of her lawsuit, eventually settling the case for an undisclosed sum. His deposition was sealed for years until a judge released parts in 2015 at the request of The Associated Press, prompting a new set of prosecutors to take a fresh look at the case. 
 
 Cosby was charged a year and a half ago, just before the statute of limitations was set to run out. The case and a barrage of similar allegations from some 60 other women have shattered his nice-guy image from "The Cosby Show" as America's Dad. 
 
 McMonagle told jurors that Cosby's freedom is at stake now, not just his finances. 
 
 "This is not a civil case about money, money, money. We're talking about all the man's tomorrows," he said. 
 
 McMonagle used a big screen to show jurors how Constand's story evolved and details changed over three interviews she gave to police after coming forward about a year after she says he assaulted her at his suburban Philadelphia home. 
 
 McMonagle noted that Constand initially had trouble pinpointing when the assault occurred, telling police in one interview it happened in March 2004 and in others that it was January 2004. 
 
 He said Constand told police in her first interview that she had never been alone with Cosby before the alleged attack, but later admitted she had spent time alone with him at his home and at a Connecticut casino resort. 
 
 Cosby told police they had been romantic three times before. His count includes times he said he brushed her leg or cupped her face in his hands. 
 
 Constand said she twice rebuffed his efforts, including one time when he tried to unzip her pants. Cosby told police he succeeded. 
 
 "Why on earth would you go to the Foxwoods casino in Connecticut, into a man's bedroom, after a man unbuttons your pants and puts his hands down your pants?" McMonagle asked. 
 
 While Cosby opted not to testify, prosecutors were expected to remind jurors about the statements he made in his deposition. Testifying under oath in 2005, Cosby said he obtained several prescriptions for quaaludes in the 1970s and offered the now-banned sedatives to women he wanted to have sex with. 
 
 He also said he gave Constand three half-tablets of the cold and allergy medicine Benadryl before the "petting" began. Prosecutors have suggested he drugged her with something stronger — perhaps quaaludes. 
 
 Earlier Monday, Cosby's lawyers put on a case consisting of just one witness and six minutes of testimony before resting their case, calling the detective who led the 2005 investigation. 
 
 Detective Richard Schaffer was one of 12 witnesses who testified during the prosecution case. In his six-minute appearance Monday, Shaffer said that Constand had visited with Cosby at an out-of-state casino and that police knew he had vision problems more than a decade ago. Cosby has said he is legally blind because of glaucoma. 
 
 The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission, which Constand has done. 
 
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 / Updated By Hannah Rappleye and Tracy Connor 
 
 She has told her story to police and prosecutors. Now she will tell it to 12 strangers — and the rest of the world. 
 
 In the coming days, Andrea Constand will take the witness stand at Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial and give a sworn account of what happened between them at his Pennsylvania home one night in 2004. And then she will have to defend her version under vigorous cross-examination, with the comedian's lawyers and the public scrutinizing her every word. 
 
 Andrea Constand walks in a park in Toronto on Dec. 30, 2015. Mark Blinch / Reuters file 
 
 It would be a daunting prospect for anyone, especially someone as private as Constand, who has never given a wide-ranging interview or held a press conference about the encounter that could send Cosby to prison for the rest of his life. 
 
 But according to a close friend, the 44-year-old Canadian massage therapist is approaching the court battle with the same quiet intensity and grounded confidence she once displayed as a top athlete. 
 
 "There's no trepidation, no fear," said Donna Motsinger, one of dozens of other women who have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct — charges he denies. 
 
 "She is prepared for this moment. She used to play basketball and she prepared for those games like nobody else and that is what she has done here." 
 
 It was basketball that brought Constand into Cosby's orbit through a chance meeting that would upend both of their lives and lay the groundwork for the extraordinary scandal that has unfolded over the last two years. 
 
 A high-school standout in her native Canada, Constand was recruited by the University of Arizona and went on to play pro ball in Italy before taking a job as the director of operations for the women's team at Temple University. 
 
 Cosby, one of the biggest celebrities in the nation, was an alum of Temple, and that's where he first met Constand in the winter of 2001 during a basketball game. 
 
 Andrea Constand poses for a photo in Toronto on Aug. 1, 1987. Ron Bull / The Toronto Star/The Canadian Press via AP 
 
 He has testified that he was instantly attracted to the "good-looking" six-footer with a wild mane of curly hair and beaming smile. Cosby, who was then in his mid-60s, said he had no idea that Constand, then in her late 20s, was gay and had been in relationships with women since high school. 
 
 Phone calls led to invitations for dinners and other events. The long-married actor known as "America's Dad" has said that while he took a sexual interest in Constand, he also assumed the role of "mentor" and tried to help her break into a career in broadcasting. 
 
 In a statement to police, Cosby claimed he and Constand engaged in "petting" on three occasions before the incident tied to the criminal charges. But she says the only earlier contact was when Cosby touched her leg after a dinner at his house, a moment she says she did not welcome and that "embarrassed" her. 
 
 "We were not involved in any romantic relationship," she later told police. 
 
 This much is not in dispute: In early 2004, Cosby invited Constand to his sprawling home in Cheltenham Township. They talked about her decision to move away from sports and pursue a career in massage. She said she was emotionally drained and had missed sleep, and he told her she needed to relax. 
 
 Cosby went upstairs and returned with pills. She described them as three oblong blue tablets that he said were herbal and encouraged her to wash down with red wine. Cosby says it was two tabs of Benadryl, one of them broken in half. 
 
 "These will make you feel good," he said, according to Constand. "Down them." 
 
 Comedian Bill Cosby at Temple University's commencement Thursday, May 12, 2011, in Philadelphia. Matt Rourke / AP file 
 
 Cosby claims that what happened next — "touching and kissing with clothes on" — was consensual. "I enjoyed it," he told police. 
 
 Constand says there was no consent; she couldn't even speak. Within 30 minutes, her vision was blurry and her legs like jelly, she said. She felt "spacy" and nauseous and could not keep her eyes open. Then Cosby was with her on the sofa, aroused, touching her breasts and genitals, she recalled. 
 
 "I was pretty much frozen," she told police. "I was unable to speak. I was like paralyzed." 
 
 When she came to, she said, it was around 4 a.m. A robed Cosby appeared and gave her a muffin and sent her on her way. 
 
 Over the next year, she saw him twice. 
 
 That March, he invited her to a restaurant where he was meeting with honor students from a local school; she said she went because she hoped to confront him, and went to his house afterward to talk. When she told him she was "uncomfortable" about what had occurred, "he was confused," Constand told police. And she bolted when he sat down close to her. 
 
 In the summer, he called and invited her to see one of his shows in Canada. She took her parents and brought him a sweater as a gift. The defense will likely seize on that as a sign that Constand was not traumatized, but prosecutors have permission to present an expert to testify such behavior is not unusual in sexual assault survivors. 
 
 Constand's mother, Gianna, a medical secretary, has said her daughter was withdrawn and plagued by nightmares after she left Temple and returned to live with them in Canada. She didn't know why until January 2005, when Constand had what she called "a flashback" and told her mother everything she remembered. 
 
 They called Canadian police the next day — and then they called Cosby, who told police he assured them that there was no "penile penetration." Several more calls followed; in one that was recorded and can be played at trial, Cosby promised to reveal the name of the medication he gave Constand and offered to pay for her schooling. 
 
 Her father Andy, a massage therapist, told the Toronto Sun at the time that Constand had no interest in Cosby's money; it was her "code of ethics" that made her come forward. 
 
 "She helps people who are poor, people who are sick. She'd give you the shirt off her back," he said. "She's not the type of person to lie. When she says something, it's the truth." 
 
 Pennsylvania authorities opened an investigation into Constand's complaint, but then-District Attorney Bruce Castor declined to prosecute. He later said he thought she would have a better chance of getting justice in civil court. 
 
 Constand did file a lawsuit, which named 12 other "Jane Does" who alleged they had been sexually assaulted. Cosby was forced to sit for the now-infamous deposition in which he discussed giving Quaaludes to women for sex in the 1970s — another detail the jury will hear. 
 
 Andrea Constand walks her dogs in Toronto, Canada on December 31, 2015. Marta Iwanek / AP file 
 
 The suit was settled in 2006 for an undisclosed sum, and the scandal faded away. For a decade, Constand was out of the spotlight, living in Toronto with her beloved dogs and launching a massage practice that focuses on the elderly and the sick. 
 
 Then, in 2014, a scathing one-liner about Cosby's history by comedian Hannibal Buress went viral, bringing new attention to old allegations. Week by week, new women came forward to accuse Cosby of everything from making unwanted advances to drugging and raping them. 
 
 A judge ordered Cosby's deposition from the civil suit unsealed, and Pennsylvania prosecutors reopened the investigation into Constand's complaint. In December 2015, the DA charged Cosby with three counts of aggravated indecent assault, to which he pleaded not guilty. 
 
 Constand has refused to be sucked into the frenzy, giving no interviews beyond brief comments to a Canadian newspaper that she did not want to talk about Cosby. "It's in the past," she said. "I have a whole other life and I am happy." 
 
 Her social media accounts suggest a woman who is deeply spiritual, loves the outdoors, and is close to her family. Her toned arms are covered in tattoos. 
 
 In October 2015, she posted a photo of her forearm. Below an inked caduceus, the symbol of medicine, was a wristband with words "Consent is...," part of a campaign by an advocacy group to end sexual violence. Constand completed the phrase in her post: "It's a conversation away." 
 
 Other accusers, whose claims are beyond the statute of limitations for criminal charges, speak with almost-awed admiration for Constand and say she will, in a way, be representing all of them when she takes the stand. 
 
 Heidi Thomas, a former model who says she was attacked in 1984, called Constand a "hero" for agreeing to testify. Beth Ferrier, who says Cosby raped her during an affair in the mid-1980s, choked up while talking about wanting to give her a hug. 
 
 "I don't know how she's prepping for it but I know she has the core values and ability to tell the truth and not stammer and not second-guess herself. She's just an incredibly honest person who deserves the ability to speak her truth," Ferrier said. 
 
 "I'm really super-proud of her ... It takes guts." 
 
 Motsinger, who has become a maternal figure to Constand since the civil suit, said she has no doubt Cosby's lawyers will try to break her on the stand, and no doubt they will fail. 
 
 "They will have to try to discredit her truth and I believe this will be almost impossible for them to do," Motsinger said. 
 
 "I really feel like she is the person who is supposed to be there out of all the women. There is nobody better in this moment in my opinion." ||||| Bill Cosby arrives for his sentencing hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) (Associated Press) 
 
 Bill Cosby arrives for his sentencing hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) (Associated Press) 
 
 NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Facing the possibility of prison at 81, Bill Cosby arrived at a suburban Philadelphia courthouse Tuesday to learn his punishment for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman over a decade ago in what led to the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. 
 
 Prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to give the comedian five to 10 years behind bars, while his lawyers asked for house arrest, saying the legally blind Cosby is too old and helpless to do time in prison. 
 
 Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt said the former TV star planned to remain silent when given the opportunity to address the court. Cosby did not testify at either of his two trials. 
 
 The once-beloved entertainer dubbed America's Dad for his role as Dr. Cliff Huxtable on the top-ranked, 1980s-era "Cosby Show" faced anywhere from probation to 10 years in prison for violating Temple University women's basketball administrator Andrea Constand at his estate near Philadelphia in 2004. 
 
 In the years since Constand first went to authorities in 2005, more than 60 women have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct, though none of those claims have led to criminal charges. 
 
 Tuesday's sentencing was a reckoning accusers and prosecutors said was decades in the making. 
 
 "The victims cannot be un-raped. Unfortunately, all we can do is hold the perpetrator accountable," said Gianna Constand, the victim's mother, who testified Monday that her daughter's buoyant personality was forever changed after the attack. 
 
 The hearing was set to conclude Tuesday after testimony from a defense psychologist who says Cosby is no longer a danger, given his age, and should not be branded a "sexually violent predator." 
 
 Defense lawyer Joseph Green Jr. urged the judge ignore the protests and activism surrounding the case and send Cosby home. 
 
 "The suggestion that Mr. Cosby is dangerous is not supported by anything other than the frenzy," Green said as demonstrators gathered outside the courthouse. 
 
 Being labeled a sexually violent predator would make Cosby subject to mandatory lifetime counseling and community notification of his whereabouts. 
 
 On Monday, Kristen Dudley, a psychologist for the state of Pennsylvania, testified that Cosby fits the criteria for a sexually violent predator, showing signs of a mental disorder that involves an uncontrollable urge to have nonconsensual sex with young women. 
 
 Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said Cosby would no doubt commit similar crimes if given the chance, warning that the former TV star seemingly gets a sexual thrill out of slipping women drugs and assaulting them. 
 
 "To say that he's too old to do that — to say that he should get a pass, because it's taken this long to catch up to what he's done?" Steele said, his voice rising. "What they're asking for is a 'get out of jail free' card." 
 
 Cosby, he said, has shown repeatedly that he feels no remorse over his actions. And he said the sentence should send a message. 
 
 "Despite bullying tactics, despite PR teams and other folks trying to change the optics, as one lawyer for the defense put it, the bottom line is that nobody's above the law. Nobody," the district attorney said. 
 
 After testifying for several hours at two trials, the first of which ended in a hung jury, Constand spoke in court Monday for just two minutes. 
 
 "The jury heard me. Mr. Cosby heard me. Now all I am asking for is justice as the court sees fit," said Andrea Constand, who submitted a much longer victim-impact statement that wasn't read in court. 
 
 The AP does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they come forward publicly, which Constand and other accusers have done. 
 
 Cosby's side didn't call any character witnesses, and his wife of 54 years, Camille, was not in court Monday. 
 
 Cosby became the first black actor to star in a prime-time TV show, "I Spy," in 1965. He remained a Hollywood A-lister for much of the next half-century. 
 
 The proceedings took place as another extraordinary #MeToo drama continued to unfold on Capitol Hill, where Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces allegations of sexual misconduct from more than three decades ago. 
 
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 Associated Press writer Claudia Lauer contributed to this report. ||||| 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.
– Bill Cosby's trial for allegedly assaulting Andrea Constand begins Monday, and at least one member of his former TV family will reportedly be watching from the sidelines, per NBC News. Keshia Knight Pulliam, 38, who played little Rudy Huxtable on The Cosby Show, is expected to be in the Norristown, Pa., courthouse to watch the proceedings against her 79-year-old former boss, with Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt telling People that Pulliam won't be there to "proclaim guilt or innocence," but simply "to finally hear the truth for herself." Wyatt says Cosby's wife on the show, Phylicia Rashad, will also appear in the courtroom at some point, though the New York Daily News says it has been told that a Rashad appearance Monday is "unlikely" because she's working. Reports of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played son Theo Huxtable, attending are similarly being bandied about. The New York Times offers an overview of what to expect during the trial—"perhaps America's highest profile celebrity trial since that of OJ Simpson"—including expected lines of evidence, the Cosby legal team's anticipated strategy, and some juror information. CNN says the trial has come down to a "he said-she said" scenario, with one other alleged victim expected to testify against Cosby in addition to Constand. "What Cosby is hoping for is that the jury forgets about the other 48 [alleged victims]," a Fordham criminal law professor notes. Meanwhile, Constand herself is reportedly ready to face intense grilling on the witness stand. "There's no trepidation, no fear," a close friend who's also one of Cosby's alleged victims tells NBC. "She used to play basketball and she prepared for those games like nobody else and that is what she has done here." (Vice calls the trial a "test for America.")