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The judge who presided over Bill Cosby's conviction on sexual assault charges ordered him to house arrest on Friday, directed he undergo a sentencing assessment, and said sentencing will take place in 75 days.
Judge Steven O'Neill ordered a "sexually violent predator" assessment for Cosby, convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault Thursday following a two-week trial and a day and a half of jury deliberations in suburban Philadelphia.
Also on Friday, O'Neill clarified Cosby's bail restrictions, restricting him to house arrest and ordering a GPS monitor. Cosby can leave his estate to visit his doctors or his lawyers within a five-county area as long as he requests in writing and receives permission from his probation officer. Cosby has already surrendered his passport.
A sexually violent predator assessment, as called for under Pennsylvania law, is conducted by a Sexual Offenders Assessment Board. O'Neill directed the board to submit its report on Cosby to him no later than 90 days from April 26, 2018.
"Sentencing will be scheduled to occur in 75 days under separate order," O'Neill said in the order.
At his post-verdict press conference, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele told reporters that such assessments of convicted sex offenders are routine, and Cosby, 80, will not be treated any differently than other defendants.
A spokesman for Cosby did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Cosby had no comment after the dramatic end of his retrial on Thursday afternoon.
Cosby was convicted of drugging and molesting former Temple University administrator Andrea Constand, 45, at his nearby home in January 2004. He denied the charges and said the encounter was consensual.
Cosby could get 10 years in prison on each count. His lead defense attorney, Tom Mesereau, said Thursday that he will appeal the conviction.
Cosby has been free on $1 million bail since he was arrested in at the end of 2015. After the verdict, Steele sought to jail him immediately, labeling him a possible flight risk because he has access to a private plane. That provoked an argument with O'Neill, who resisted, and then shouted vulgarities from Cosby directed at Steele.
In the end, Cosby left the courthouse about an hour after the verdict and returned to his nearby home.
Meanwhile, media organizations joined to petition O'Neill for access to the names of the seven men and five women of the retrial jury, who were sequestered at a hotel in Norristown during the proceeding.
The same argument was made after the first trial last summer, which ended in a mistrial when the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict. That jury also was sequestered and had been picked from the Pittsburgh area.
Steele sought to keep those jurors' names secret and Judge O'Neill initially agreed. Then he relented and ordered the release of the identities while warning jurors not to divulge what other jurors said or how they voted during deliberations.
After the retrial and conviction, Judge O'Neill again reminded jurors they don't have to talk to the media if they don't want to. Thus far, none has, although a handful of jurors from the first trial did do media interviews.
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