For starters, the high court will try to clarify when other accusers can testify against a defendant — and when the additional testimony amounts to character assassination.

Lawyers argued that it was "fundamentally unfair" to let prosecutors use Cosby's damaging deposition from a sex accuser’s lawsuit against him at trial.

In 2018, Bill Cosby was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting Toronto woman Andrea Constand.

Bill Cosby, his lawyers and agents have suggested that many of the accusers were "gold diggers" seeking money or fame.

The settlement ends a court fight that predates the 81-year-old's conviction a year ago for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a former Temple University administrator, in 2004.

Bill Cosby on his prison sentence; "I stand upright as a political prisoner and I smile. The truth is strong!"

Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby has been in jail for four months, but his wife and children haven't been to the prison once in that time.

Montgomery County judge Steven T. O'Neill said that "no hearing or argument is required on the issues raised" by Cosby.

Bill Cosby's lawyers have asked a Pennsylvania court to overturn the actor's conviction and three- to 10-year prison sentence because of what they call a string of errors in his sex assault case.

Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill also declared Bill Cosby, 81, a "sexually violent predator."