American comedian Bill Cosby's second trial on sexual-assault charges has reportedly been postponed to mid-March or early April 2018 in order to have more time to prepare his defense.
Judge Steven O'Neill granted the comedian and his new legal representatives' request to postpone the trial.
According to E Online, the retrial was set to begin on November 6 of this year after his first trial ended in a mistrial in June.
But O'Neil said at the hearing that the tentative start date would be mid-March or early April of 2018.
"To ask someone to review the voluminous record over 18 months-now 20 months in this case-simply cannot be done," O'Neill said from the bench during the recent pre-trial hearing in Norristown, Penn.
The 80-year-old actor announced on August 21 that he had hired the new team and it's not unusual for new lawyers in a criminal case to seek a delay in a trial in order to get up to speed on the case.
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The African American actor has been accused for drugging and molesting former Temple University basketball official Andrea Constand at his Philadelphia home in 2004.
As per reports, Constand was the first of more than 50 women to bring allegations of sexual misconduct against Cosby over the years.
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