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...YORK: Autumn Jackson was found guilty of attempting to extort money from Bill Cosby by threatening to tell tabloid newspapers she was his out-of-wedlock child. She was also convicted of conspiracy and crossing state lines to commit a crime, and faces up to 12 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. Co-defendant Jose Medina, 51, was convicted of the same three counts. A third defendant, Boris Sabas, 42, was convicted of conspiracy and crossing state lines, but acquitted of extortion charges. Jackson, 22, has portrayed herself as an innocent and abandoned child who merely wanted...
...morality play under way in room 1306 of the old white marble federal courthouse in New York City is a three-hankie affair. On the prosecution side is Bill Cosby, battling an attack on his reputation as America's Dearest Dad. At the defense table sits Autumn Jackson, 22, the woman who is charged with trying to extort $40 million from Cosby in exchange for not publicizing a story that could brand Cosby Deadbeat Daddy Dearest. The tug of sympathies is palpable. Does one side with Cosby, a man who has achieved heroic stature since the tragic shooting...
...sure, inquiring minds demand to know: Is Bill really Autumn's dad? After public money and Jackson's 15 minutes of fame have been spent, the mystery may well remain unsolved. Before jury selection began last Monday, Judge Barbara Jones ruled that the question of Cosby's paternity was legally irrelevant and shot down a defense request that Cosby undergo a paternity test. The defense would also like to present the results of a polygraph test, taken and passed by Jackson on July 6, in which she answered yes to the questions, "Is Bill Cosby your father?" and "Is your...
...negotiation," not an extortion. To buttress these claims, Baum's opening statement walked the jury through a lengthy history of contacts between Cosby and both Jackson and her mother, Shawn Thompson. Baum said it was Cosby who suggested Thompson list her former boyfriend, Gerald Jackson, as the father on Autumn's birth certificate. (Cosby's attorney denies the allegation.) Baum traced years of "gifts" bestowed by Cosby, including trust funds and cars for both women and a front-row seat for Jackson at the 1991 taping of the final episode of The Cosby Show. Only after Jackson and her mother...
...Nobel laureate has the classic gift of mixing ease with eloquence and of deepening, dignifying his most private moments with the high and burnished diction of a sunlit Shakespeare. Even more, Walcott has strained and struggled all his life to match sun and rain, to marry the world of autumn leaves and opera houses that he learned to love on paper with the unrecorded "pomme-arac" and fireflies of his long-colonized islands. If the multiculturalists who govern the academy were worthy of a gospel, they would need to look no further...