Judge: Cosby had ‘signature’ pattern in sexual assault cases

Bill Cosby had a “signature” sex-assault pattern, a judge said in court papers released Tuesday.

Pennsylvania Judge Steven O’Neill had to file a written response to defend why he allowed five accusers who weren’t part of the criminal case against the fallen star to testify, since Cosby’s defense has appealed the 81-year-old’s conviction partly based on the move.

O’Neill, of the Montgomery County, Pa., Court of Common Pleas, wrote that he allowed the accusers to testify because there were “striking similarities” between their accounts of sexual assault at the hands of “America’s Dad.”

“In each instance, the Defendant met a substantially younger woman, gained her trust, invited her to a place where he was alone with her, provided her a drink or drug and sexually assaulted her once she was rendered incapacitated,” O’Neill writes in comparing the allegations of the woman involved in the criminal case, Andrea Constand, and the other women.

“The defendant’s actions were so distinctive as to become a signature. The striking similarities between the assaults alleged by each woman were not confined to insignificant details,” the judge said.

The former Jell-O pitchman has taken to calling himself a “political prisoner” while he serves out his three-to-10-year sentence in Pennsylvania’s maximum security prison SCI Phoenix.

Cosby most recently accused O’Neill, who is white, of exhibiting “racial hatred” toward him.

The judge’s response was required for appeals in the state of Pennsylvania.

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