Bill Cosby’s lawyers sent a request to to the Federal Court in Philly Wednesday, asking that the actor’s prior deposition testimony relating to extramarital affairs, drugs and payments to women be resealed.
Cosby doesn’t want his decade old testimony to be used as legal ammunition against him in his pending criminal case. USA Today reports that the deposition transcripts were unsealed in 2015, after a successful legal campaign by the Associated Press. While being deposed, Cosby admitted to having multiple affairs and using prescription sedatives to subdue women he wanted to seduce.
The only problem with resealing those records is that the contents of that testimony and his history are now public knowledge, so it will be hard to try to dismiss them in court with claims about sexual assault and affairs.
“While not agreeing to terminate the deposition, the court granted Mrs. Cosby’s request to limit the types of questions she could be asked going forward, prohibiting plaintiffs from asking improper questions, questions seeking her opinion, and questions involving marital communications,” said Andrew Wyatt, the couple’s publicist.
