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Bill Cosby was pictured for the first time on Wednesday after he was released from prison.
The 83-year-old comedian had his sexual assault conviction overturned.
In 2018, Cosby was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in 2004.
Bill Cosby was pictured for the first time on Wednesday shortly after he was released from a Pennsylvania state prison.
Cosby put up a peace sign with his hands as he walked to his home.
The 83-year-old comedian walked out of State Correctional Institution at Phoenix a free man Wednesday after the Keystone State's highest court made the decision to overturn his sexual assault conviction.
Cosby had served more than two years of a three- to 10-year sentence at the lockup near Philadelphia after he was found guilty in 2018 of drugging and sexually assaulting Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his home in 2004.
More than 50 women accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them. A criminal investigation into the allegations made by Constand was re-opened in 2018, leading to a trial and conviction of Cosby for aggravated indecent assault.
The Pennsylvania State Supreme Court that threw out Cosby's conviction found that his due process rights were violated. The decision bars a retrial of his case and came as a result of a deal with a former prosecutor, which prevented Cosby from being criminally charged in the case.
The decision did not emerge due to new evidence.
"He was found guilty by a jury and now goes free on a procedural issue that is irrelevant to the facts of the crime," Montgomery County DA Kevin Steele, who oversaw Cosby's conviction, said in a statement.
The court's decision to let the actor, once known as "America's Dad," out of prison comes after Cosby was recently denied parole for refusing to take part in a therapy program for sex offenders.
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