Will the coronavirus be Bill Cosby’s “get out of jail free” card? We’re not sure, but his legal team hopes so. They filed paperwork to get the 82-year-old released from SCI Phoenix in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania after reports surfaced that at least one prison officer has tested positive for COVID-19.
The goal is to get Cosby – who’s serving three to 10 years on a sexual assault conviction from 2018 – on house arrest. According to spokesperson Andrew Wyatt, “Bill Cosby is no detriment or danger to the community. He can’t go anywhere. He is elderly. He is blind. He can stay under house arrest with an ankle bracelet, as he did before, with his wife taking care of him. Let him do his time at home.”
Wyatt says that getting Cosby out of jail at this point is more about his health and age than anything else. While he currently has no symptoms and gets his vital checked every morning, he has blood pressure spikes from time to time. Also, “He is blind and has close contact with workers who take him to his medical appointments every day in a wheelchair,” he noted. “They take him for his meals and clean his cell. If they get infected, they could pass it on to him.”
Source: Page Six
