The testimony ends; judge to pronounce a sentence

Prosecutors released Constand's five-page letter to the judge in which she described the impact of Cosby's assault, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Before the assault, "I knew who I was and I loved who I was … Nothing could have prepared me for a January 2004 evening, when life as I knew it was 'stopped abruptly', wrote Constand, referring to the attack.

She summed up the effect: "Bill Cosby took my beautiful young and healthy mind and crushed it.I stole my health and vitality, my open nature and my self-confidence. and towards others. "

According to the psychologist, Cosby's likelihood of recidivism is "extraordinarily low"

Cosby's lawyer, Joseph Green, introduced psychologist Dr. Timothy Foley as an eleventh hour witness on Tuesday morning. Foley spent three hours interviewing Cosby in July as part of a risk assessment to determine if the artist found guilty was likely to assault other women.

Foley said the risk was "extraordinarily low," given Cosby's age and blindness. He testified that if Cosby's memory and speech are intact, he is not self-sufficient and has not been able to walk or find things unaided during their interview.

Foley stated that Cosby had told him that he had no undeclared victims, that he had "never abused" drugs or alcohol and that he had "never abused" drugs or alcohol. he "had no affinity for pornography at any point in his life".

Cosby seemed stoic throughout Foley's testimony, bent over his chair and holding his head in his hands from time to time.

Foley's assessment contradicts that of Dr. Kristen Dudley, a psychologist who is part of the Pennsylvania Sex Offender Assessment Commission. She said Monday that Cosby met the criteria of a sexually violent predator after reviewing police reports and transcripts of lawsuits. (Cosby refused to meet her.)

She argued that Cosby had initiated and maintained a friendship with Constand in order to "take advantage of her", bribing her with drugs and alcohol until she was rendered unconscious and sedated.

According to Dudley, this represented the pattern that Cosby often made friends with women, betraying their trust and violating them for the "sole purpose of her sexual satisfaction."

Cosby arrives for the day of judgment; fans make a home assignment affair

Cosby arrived at the Montgomery County Court House, a suburb of Philadelphia, around 8:30 am ET on a rainy morning, for the second day of her sentencing hearing. He smiled faintly and nodded as he passed fans, including a man shouting, "Keep your head up, Bill!

A protester shouted, "Justice for women!" while "The Final Countdown" was playing on a speaker blowing bubbles.

The disgraced comedian Bill Cosby arrives at the Montgomery County Court House in Pennsylvania on Tuesday for the second day of a sentencing hearing after his conviction for sexual assault in April. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski, AFP / Getty Images)

Outside the courthouse, Mariann Tokarchik, a Cosby supporter and resident of Norristown, advocated house arrest. "I see that they are trying to give her a prison sentence," she told USA TODAY. "It's not fair to Bill, but what can you do? It's the court system."

Another Cosby contributor, Tony Abery, 61, from Norristown, said, "I think they should let him go and put him under house arrest or just let him go and let him go. passed in 2004. Here it is in 2018. … Why can not they let the past pass and leave the man in peace? Is the man old?

Recap of day 1: DA seeks up to 10 years in prison, says Cosby who has shown no remorse

explainer: What happens if Bill Cosby is classified as a "sexually violent predator"?

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Bill Cosby could be sent to jail next week for drugging and assaulting a woman in his Philadelphia suburban home in 2004, during the first #MeToo celebrity lawsuit. (September 20th)
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Recap of day 1

On the first day of the sentencing hearing, prosecutors and defense lawyers argued that Cosby should be sent to jail and for how long. Prosecutors demanded that Cosby, 81, be sentenced to five or ten years, while the defense argued that the disgraced artist, who would be legally blind, is too old and too fragile to be sent to jail. Constand, whom Cosby is found guilty of sexual assault, and others testified.

The sentencing hearing is the latest in an effort of nearly four years to sentence and imprison Cosby, who was convicted in April of three counts of aggravated sexual assault for drugging and assaulted Constand, an old friend. January 2004.

Accused Andrea Constand leaves after the first day of Bill Cosby's sentencing hearing. (Photo: David Maialetti / AP)

Cosby did not go to court on Monday, sitting face to face for much of the procedure. Constand, who testified briefly on Monday, watched the proceedings with other people who said they had been assaulted by Cosby, including model Janice Dickinson (one of five other accusers to testify at her trial) and Lili Bernard.