United States Supreme Court received a reinstatement appeal on Monday to revive the sexual conviction of comedian Bill Cosby saying the verdict was thrown out over a questionable agreement.

Cosby’s conviction was overturned earlier this year in June by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. However, the recent appeal to America’s top judicial body suggests that the decision created.

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They said the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision in June to overturn Cosby’s conviction created a dangerous precedent by giving a press release the legal weight of an immunity agreement.

Kevin Steele, the Montgomery County District Attorney, said that the decision was “an indefensible rule”. His petition read, “This decision as it stands will have far-reaching negative consequences beyond Montgomery County and Pennsylvania. The US Supreme Court can right what we believe is a grievous wrong.”

Cosby’s lawyers have long argued that he relied on a promise that he would never be charged when he gave damaging testimony in an accuser’s civil suit in 2006. The admissions were later used against him in two criminal trials, according to reports from Associated Press.

The only written evidence of such a promise is a 2005 press release from the then-prosecutor, Bruce Castor, who said he did not have enough evidence to arrest Cosby.

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Cosby, who is 84 years old, became the first celebrity convicted of sexual assault in the #MeToo era when the jury at his 2018 retrial found him guilty of drugging and molesting college sports administrator Andrea Constand in 2004.

He spent nearly three years in prison before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court set him free in June.

Cosby, a groundbreaking Black actor and comedian, created the top-ranked ‘Cosby Show’ in the 1980s. A barrage of sexual assault allegations later destroyed his image as “America’s Dad” and led to multimillion-dollar court settlements with at least eight women. But Constand’s was the only case to lead to criminal charges.