Bill Cosby performs at Philadelphia jazz club ahead of retrial

Bill Cosby, wearing Philadelphia Eagles apparel, sits in a car in Philadelphia on Jan. 21, 2018. Gilbert Carrasquillo / GC Images – Getty Images

The appearance comes after a judge ordered on Friday that jury selection would begin on March 29 for Cosby’s retrial on charges that he drugged and sexually assaulted Andrea Constand in 2004, court records show.

In an email to NBC News, Constand’s lawyer, Dolores Troiani, said she hadn’t seen Monday’s performance.

“Right now the only thing I can say is the arrogance of this man leaves every decent person speechless,” she said.

Cosby’s first trial on the case

ended with a hung jury in Pennsylvania in June. The jury was deadlocked on all counts after 52 hours of deliberations.

Cosby was also spotted in Philadelphia by photographers on Sunday, donning Philadelphia Eagles gear ahead of the NFC Championship game.

A journalist for WHYY News in Philadelphia posted a video on social media of Cosby on stage in a hoodie interacting with the laughing and smiling crowd Monday night.

Ebonee Benson, a representative for Cosby, said Monday that she had no further comment on his performance or on the jury selection.

Cosby’s retrial comes in the midst of the

global #MeToo movement highlighting sexual harassment and misconduct.

Prosecutors said last week that they are asking the judge in the case to let

19 women testify against the TV star to show a pattern of predatory behavior.

“This evidence is relevant to establish that an individual who, over the course of decades, intentionally intoxicated women in a signature fashion and then sexually assaulted them while they were incapacitated, could not have been mistaken about whether or not Ms. Constand was conscious enough to consent to the sexual contact,” Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele wrote in a motion Thursday.

Prosecutors had asked that same judge to let 13 other accusers testify against Cosby, but the judge decided to let just one other accuser tell her account of being drugged and abused by the comedian.The comedian has been accused by dozens of women of sexual misconduct and abuse spanning decades, but Constand’s is the only incident that has resulted in a criminal trial for Cosby.

Cosby denies all the sexual misconduct allegations against him and has sued some women for defamation. He also contends his contact with Constand was consensual.

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