Judge nixes Cosby request to step down; sentencing Monday

Days before sentencing, Bill Cosby’s trial judge denied a defense motion to step down from the sex assault case because of what Cosby’s team called a long-ago grudge with a pretrial witness.
Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill has seen the case through two trials, hard-fought pretrial hearings and 15 defense lawyers since Cosby’s arrest on Dec. 30, 2015.
Cosby’s two-day sentencing hearing is set to start Monday. A jury this spring convicted him of drugging and mo