Judge puts limit on accusers at Cosby sentencing

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The judge set to sentence actor Bill Cosby on sex assault charges is limiting the number of other accusers who can testify next week.

The 81-year-old Cosby’s potential sentence ranges from the 30-year maximum term to probation. State guidelines suggest a one- to four-year sentence.

Prosecutors want some of Cosby’s 60 other accusers to testify Monday to show that a pattern of sexual misconduct makes him a predator and a danger. Five of them testified at the April retrial, when a jury convicted Cosby of drugging and molesting a woman in 2004.

Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill in a ruling Wednesday asks prosecutors if they hope to call the five trial witnesses. But he says he won’t let other accusers take the stand.

Cosby’s lawyers oppose the testimony.