After he was charged and arrested in 2015 prior to the statute of limitations expiring, Cosby’s first trial saw a single accuser being allowed to testify, though that all ended in the jury being deadlocked.
For the retrial, the judge allowed five other accusers to testify against Cosby with stories of their alleged experiences with him in the 1980s.
He was convicted in 2018, and officially began his sentence in September of that year.
And while it was initially deemed suitable as a way of showing a pattern of sexually deviant behavior, the Pennsylvania Supreme court viewed the testimony as having tainted the trial.