As I said in another comment I hadn’t realised he was in prison. My level of interest in the lives of convicted paedophiles is – and this may not come as a surprise – very low, so I just thought he was trying to clear his name.

“It would vacate his conviction and get him out of prison. His life after may not be great, but he still has money.”

That I can understand – the getting out of prison part. (Sorry – I don’t pay any attention to most of this and really wasn’t aware he was in jail).

But (and I admit this is where my knowledge of what’s going on in the US gets a bit sketchy because I live in the UK and – okay – don’t care all that much) wasn’t Cosby’s conviction overturned on a technicality? And as far as I can tell he hasn’t regained his former glory and former status as “America’s Dad”?

Merits of the request aside (because I really have no clue) how does this possibly help him?

Does he think the entire world is just going to forget he was originally convicted? That we are just going to go “Oh – there’s that guy who wasn’t ever found guilty of looking at child porn and doing sex things with kids”?

Do people who are convicted of stuff then acquitted on technicalities really think that the public just forget all their past crimes because a piece of paper says “sorry – they were prosecuted one day too late”?