Judge denies Bill Cosby's candidacy for a new trial

A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday rejected Bill Cosby's bid for a new trial and a reduction of sentence because of the conviction of the dishonored comedian for sexual assault.

Cosby's defense had asked Judge Steven O Neill of Montgomery County to proceed with a pardon, arguing that the evidence against Cosby was old and unreliable and that it should not have been allowed. At the trial.

The defense also asserted that Cosby's sentence was unnecessarily harsh, more than twice the minimum.

But O'Neill, in a single page decision, said he had found no reason to grant a new trial or to ease the sentence.

Cosby was sentenced to three years to ten years in jail for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at the actor's home in suburban Philadelphia in 2004. At that time, Constand was a female basketball administrator at Temple University, Cosby's alma mater.

Cosby, 81, is best known for playing the healthy father, Dr. Cliff Huxtable, at NBC's "Cosby Show" from 1984 to 1992. Constand is one of dozens of women who have accused Cosby of sexual sexual behavior.

He is now locked in a state prison in Collegeville, about 30 miles northwest of Philadelphia.