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Aug. 23, 2017 Silver files a motion to join Cosby’s legal team, fulfilling a state requirement that at least one of the members of the defense team be certified to practice law in Pennsylvania.

Jan. 10, 2018 With a phalanx of reporters, cameramen and publicists in tow, Cosby dines out in a largely empty Italian restaurant in Germantown, Pennsylvania called Ristorante La Veranda, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Asked how he’s feeling about his upcoming retrial on sexual assault charges, Cosby tells reporters, “We’re ready.”

Bill Cosby hangs out at DeMarco’s Hair Artistry (Barbershop) on yesterday with friends, fans and supporters.#DeMarcosHairArtistry#RisingSunAvenue#BugsyBlades#Philadelphia#GoEagles pic.twitter.com/1FPUWcDWpS

— Bill Cosby (@BillCosby) January 21, 2018

Bill Cosby jokes about his blindness at Germantown’s La Rosa Jazz Club pic.twitter.com/XnkKgg15kQ

— Jeremy Roebuck (@jeremyrroebuck) January 23, 2018

Jan. 26, 2018 Cosby’s attorneys file an explosive motion seeking to have his case dismissed, accusing prosecutors of withholding and destroying evidence that could have helped the comedian at trial. They claim in court papers that prosecutors had only recently made them aware of an interview that prosecution investigators conducted with a woman named Marguerite Jackson -- who defense attorneys claimed in a court filing would say that Constand told her she “had not been sexually assaulted, but she could say that she had, file charges and get money” -- and then destroyed their notes from the interview. In fact, it was later determined, former defense attorney Brian McMonagle was aware of the interview prior to the original trial last year. Hours after the filing, Cosby’s Pennsylvania attorney Sam Silver files a motion to withdraw from the case.

Feb. 1, 2018 Lane Vines, a Pennsylvania securities and investment fraud attorney, files a motion to replace Sam Silver as Cosby’s local counsel.

Feb. 1, 2018 For the first time in a century, the University of Pennsylvania revokes honorary degrees it bestowed on Cosby and Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn, who has also been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple parties, according to a statement released by the school, reported in the school's newspaper. When sexual assault allegations first resurfaced in 2015, the school said it would not revoke the degree.

Feb. 5, 2018 In a blistering response to the defense motion alleging prosecutorial misconduct and the destruction of evidence, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele called the allegations “demonstrably false” and complained that “the facts and the truth were easily ascertainable; defendant and his lawyers just did not care to find them.” Steele asserts that prosecutors contacted Cosby’s own former attorney, Brian McMonagle, who told them that he was, in fact, aware of the interview prior to the first trial.

The same day, defense attorneys acknowledged that they had wrongly accused Steele of prosecutorial misconduct and amended their motion to dismiss. In the amended filing, defense attorneys continued to assert that while investigators do not recall taking notes during the Jackson interview, Jackson claims they did. Cosby’s attorneys were seeking an evidentiary hearing to investigate the prosecution team’s conduct, writing that “the defense should be able to explore the Montgomery County Detectives Bureau’s policy on note-taking, memoranda of interviews and destruction of notes.”

Feb. 7, 2018 In a statement to Fox News, Yale University said it has never rescinded an honorary degree and has no plans to revoke the degree it awarded Cosby in 2003, citing a “longstanding practice” of never doing so.

Feb. 19, 2018 Johns Hopkins University, which awarded Cosby an honorary degree in 2004, declined to rescind the degree in a statement to the Johns Hopkins Newsletter, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.

April 2, 2018 Cosby's second trial begins. He's charged with drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his suburban Pennsylvania home during a visit she made there in 2004. Cosby has denied the charge and says any sexual encounters with the former Temple University women's basketball administrator were consensual. Judge Steven T. O’Neill -- the same judge from the first trial -- allowed five additional women who accused Cosby of drugging and molesting them to take the stand as prosecution witnesses to corroborate Constand’s account.

April 9, 2018 For first time ever, the prosecution publicly said the 80-year-old Cosby paid his primary accuser $3.38 million in exchange for her silence about him allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting her.

April 24, 2018 In a scorched-earth defense strategy, Cosby’s attorneys banked on a backlash to the growing #MeToo movement, describing it during their closing arguments as a mob mentality “primarily based on emotion and anger” and comparing the prosecution of the comedian to lynching, witch hunts, and McCarthyism. But prosecutors countered, calling the 80-year-old Cosby a \"con artist,\" a term defense attorneys have used to describe the comedian's main accuser, Constand.

April 25, 2018 The jury begins their deliberation.

April 26, 2018 Cosby was convicted on three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault in the case involving Constand and two others. Steele said he will move to get Cosby, a multimillionaire, to pay for not only the cost of this trial but the previous one as well. He noted that lead defense attorney Tom Mesereau said in his opening argument that the $3.38 million Cosby paid in 2006 to settle a sexual assault lawsuit filed against him by Constand was a \"paltry sum.\"

April 30, 2018 One of the male jurors spoke to \"Good Morning America,\" saying that he was convinced of Cosby's guilt because of the comedian's own words. \"It was his deposition, really,\" Harrison Snyder, 22, said of what ultimately made him come to the conclusion Cosby was guilty. \"Mr. Cosby admitted to giving these Quaaludes to women, young women, in order to have sex with them.\"

May 3, 2018 Cosby's wife Camille spoke out after the verdict, saying that she believes \"an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law. This is mob justice, not real justice.\"

At one point in her statement, Camille Cosby said that her husband's \"unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs.\"

\"Since when are all accusers truthful? History disproves that,\" she said before comparing Bill Cosby's trial to Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was lynched in 1955 after a white woman falsely accused him of flirting.

That same day, Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski, who has also been accused of sexual misconduct, were expelled from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

June 15, 2018 Cosby fired all seven attorneys on his legal team just months ahead of his September sentencing, replacing them with a single Pennsylvania criminal-defense lawyer. Cosby, who's on house arrest, hired attorney Joseph P. Green Jr. to represent him going forward, according to the former comedian's spokesman Andrew Wyatt.

Sept. 17. 2018 Camille Cosby went to the Pennsylvania capital in Harrisburg to file a complaint with the state's Judicial Conduct Board about the judge in her husband's case, calling O'Neill \"arrogant,\" \"corrupt\" and \"unethical,\" according to the Associated Press.

Sept. 24, 2018 Cosby's sentencing hearing began. In a two-minute victim-impact statement, Constand told O'Neill that she wants \"justice as the court sees fit.\"

Sept. 25, 2018 The judge sentenced Cosby to three to 10 years in state prison after the octogenarian was designated a \"sexually violent predator.\" O'Neill sentenced Cosby in a Norristown, Pennsylvania, courtroom, and then denied bail during pending appeals, capping a two-day hearing attended by about a dozen women who accused Cosby of sexual assault, including Constand, whom he was convicted of assaulting. O'Neill ordered Cosby to serve the sentence in \"total confinement\" for \"no less than three years and no more than 10 years.\"

June 25, 2019 Cosby claims in a new appeal to his Pennsylvania sex assault conviction that the trial judge was wrong to allow five additional accusers to testify at trial that they were drugged and sexually assaulted by Cosby, among other appellate issues raised in the lengthy memo. The appeal further argues that the trial judge erred in allowing Cosby’s prior deposition testimony about using Quaaludes during consensual sexual encounters with women in the 1970s to be read aloud at trial, and claim he should have recused himself from overseeing the trial due to an alleged dispute with a pre-trial witness.

Aug. 12, 2019 During oral arguments before an appeals panel of Pennsylvania Superior Court judges, a seemingly-skeptical panel of state Superior Court appellate judges peppered Cosby's attorneys repeatedly with challenges to the defense team's arguments, while barely interrupting two state prosecutors during their presentation, during a roughly hour-long hearing in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Superior Court panel’s ruling on Cosby’s appeal will be issued in writing at an unspecified future date. The appellate panel's decision can be appealed to the state's Supreme Court, but that court could choose not to hear the panel, ending the process.

Dec. 10, 2019 A panel of three appellate judges unanimously rejected Cosby’s appeal, and his lawyers vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. One month later, they officially filed that paperwork, claiming that the Superior Court had made errors in judgment.

June 23, 2020 The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania agreed to hear two points in Cosby's appeal.

Dec. 1, 2020 Attorneys virtually argued their cases before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, with Cosby's lawyer, Jennifer Bojean, claiming that her client \"suffered unquantifiable prejudice, where the prior bad-act evidence overwhelmed his second trial.\" At the time, several justices seemed to agree, questioning whether the testimony of the secondary accusers created a distraction. \"You can still get to the point, with evidence that is terribly probative, that it's just too much, and the defendant did not have a fair trial,\" Justice Max Baer said. However, Assistant Montgomery County District Attorney Adrienne Jappe noted the group of prior bad-act witnesses was reduced to five from 19. \"Without this evidence the commonwealth would have had to largely rely on the uncorroborated testimony of Andrea Constand regarding the lack of consent,\" Jappe said.

The justices appeared to be less moved by the defense's argument that Cosby never should have been tried in the first place due to a non-prosecution deal -- never put in writing -- with a previous district attorney that prompted the comedian to sit for a deposition in a civil lawsuit. In that deposition, Cosby testified about sexual encounters with women to whom he had offered Quaaludes.

\"I'm struggling with your argument,\" Justice Kevin Dougherty said, noting that Cosby is an \"intellectually superior\" person who should have known about self-incrimination.

June 30, 2021 The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania overturned Cosby's conviction, finding that the comedian should not have been charged or sentenced due to his agreement with a prosecutor. He was released from State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, that afternoon.

ABC News' Lesley Messer and Aaron Katersky contributed to this report.

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