Bill Cosby released from jail after court overturns his conviction

American comedian Bill Cosby was released from prison Wednesday after the Pennsylvania Supre Court overturned his indecent assault conviction.

The state's highest court tossed Cosby's conviction as a result of an agreement he had with a prior prosecutor that would have prevented Cosby from being criminally charged in the case.

The ruling bars any retrial in the case, court documents say.

The 83-year-old comedian was two years in a three-to-10-year prison term. 

Cosby was accused of drugging and molesting Andrea Constand, the former Temple University employee whose allegation was the basis of the criminal case, at his estate in 2004. He was charged in 2015 for the allegation attack and arrested just days before the 12 years statute of limitations expired. He was sentenced in 2018. He has said his contact with Constand was consensual.

Source: CNBC