Cosby wants judge to step down days before sentencing

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby wants a Pennsylvania judge to step down from his case days before sentencing on sex assault charges.

A defence motion Tuesday accuses Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill of having a longtime grudge against a key witness in a 2016 pretrial hearing.

The witness, ex-prosecutor Bruce Castor, says he declined the case in 2005 and promised Cosby that he could never be prosecuted over the 2004 encounter with a woman at his home.

O’Neill found no evidence of a binding agreement and sent the case to trial.