Castor's deal with Cosby sounds fishy

ISSUE | BILL COSBY

Castor's non-prosecution deal sounds fishy

Bruce L. Castor Jr. testified that he verbally committed himself and the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office about 10 years ago to "never prosecute Bill Cosby" ("Cosby case to proceed," Thursday). There is no written record of that decision, either to support his testimony or bind his office. As a lawyer in an elected position of trust, it was Castor's responsibility to record such an agreement. If he neglected to do so, intentionally or otherwise, he failed his office and the public miserably.

As for Cosby's lawyer having failed to obtain a written record of such an agreement and then allowing his unprotected client to give a deposition in a civil case against his own interests, potentially exposing himself to prosecution, it amounted at best to malpractice. As a lawyer, I doubt that any self-respecting attorney would accept a verbal agreement, particularly in a criminal case, without a written record of the understanding.

Cosby must now suffer the consequences of a misguided defense.

|Richard M. Rodgers, Warminster