Criticizing the guilty verdict brought against her husband, Camille claims, 'Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so.'

• May 4, 2018

AceShowbiz - Bill Cosby's wife Camille has condemned the guilty verdict brought against her husband, saying he was convicted by "mob justice, not real justice".

At the end of April, "The Cosby Show" star was found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in Pennsylvania in January 2004.

Camille, who has stood by her husband as more than 60 women have come forward to accuse him of sexual abuses dating back decades, has now broken her silence to blast the verdict in a passionate statement.

"Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law," she wrote. "This is mob justice, not real justice. This tragedy must be undone not just for Bill Cosby, but for the country... Someday the truth will prevail, it always does."

She also argued that the media coverage made it impossible for him to have a fair trial.

"The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers' allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury," she wrote. "Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so... period."

She recalled the trials of Emmett Till and Darryl Hunt, who were falsely accused of crimes, two examples of the justice system "utterly and routinely failing to protect African Americans falsely accused in so-called courts of law and the entirely unfair court of public opinion."

With Cosby, her husband since 1964, she argued that "unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs" and called for a criminal investigation into Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, whose key witness allegedly gave a testimony "riddled with innumerable, dishonest contradictions."

Referring to Steele and his "cohorts", she continued, "This is a homogeneous group of exploitive (sic) and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby's life. If they can do this to Mr. Cosby, they can do so to anyone."