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Innocent Until Proven Guilty, but is Anyone in Higher Ed Standing With Bill Cosby?

If Bill Cosby used to give millions to your school, as he did to Spelman College, you can be assured that the money is now being put to good use — for his legal defense.

The 2016 semester of Bill Cosby Law School — where the public can witness the celebrity icon’s step-by-step legal fight to save his legacy on multiple fronts ― begins in earnest this week.

Cosby’s wife, Camille, after losing her battle to avoid testifying, is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday in Massachusetts for a civil case involving seven women who claim Cosby defamed them.

But it’s not likely to match last week’s legal bombshell when the first criminal matter over sexual allegations was brought against Cosby, the man who once played Heathcliff Huxtable.

In America, you’re innocent until proven guilty. But it doesn’t look good for the nation’s tarnished comic treasure.

With Cosby’s arrest last week on three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault, it will be hard to find anyone still willing to keep their head stuck in the sand or give the benefit of any doubt to the man who once was the moral scold of Black America.

Cosby is reported to have had a smile on his face when he told a judge he understood his arraignment on the sexual assault charges stemming from a 2004 case from a single accuser in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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