Ex-DA suing Andrea Constand for 2015 defamation case

  • Bruce L. Castor Jr, the ex-DA, claims Andrea Constand made moves to hinder his career in a personal injury suit filed in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court 
  • Constand alleges that Cosby drugged and molested her in 2004 
  • In 2015, Constand sued the former district attorney for defamation 
  • Lawyer James Beasley Jr said the 2015 suit was detrimental to that year’s race where Democrat Kevin R. Steele ran ads criticizing Castor’s handling of the case

The former district attorney in Montgomery County who did not press charges to Bill Cosby in 2005 is suing his accuser. 

Bruce L. Castor Jr, the ex-DA, claims Andrea Constand made moves to hinder his career in a personal injury suit filed in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court.

Constand alleges that Cosby drugged and molested her in 2004. 

Bruce L. Castor Jr, the ex-DA, claims Andrea Constand made moves to hinder his career in a personal injury suit filed in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court

Bruce L. Castor Jr, the ex-DA, claims Andrea Constand made moves to hinder his career in a personal injury suit filed in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court

In 2015, Constand sued the former district attorney for defamation.

According to Castor’s lawyer,  James Beasley Jr, the 2015 suit was detrimental to that year’s race where Democrat Kevin R. Steele ran ads criticizing the way Castor handled the case. 

The Republican attorney would go on and lose reelection. 

Constand alleges that Cosby drugged and molested her in 2004

Constand alleges that Cosby drugged and molested her in 2004

According to Beasley, Constand ‘was trying to gain a tactical advantage with the election in order to get Kevin Steele put in so that she could get Cosby prosecuted.’

But a lawyer for Constand’s lawyers, Jeffrey McCarron, called the lawsuit ‘legally deficient.’

‘If his described basis is the reason for the lawsuit, then we do not expect it will last very long,’ McCarron added to the Inquirer. 

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