Bill Cosby, Britney, and a tale of two American justice systems | Arwa Mahdawi

Cosby becoming a free man on the same day Spears lost her latest battle to free herself from a man's control is almost too on the nose

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune and an expensive lawyer can get away with almost anything. See as exhibit one: Bill Cosby. On Wednesday, Pennsylvania's highest court overturned the disgraced actor's sexual assault conviction on a legal technicality. Cosby had served two years of a three to ten-year sentence for a 2004 encounter with accuser Andrea Constand; before Wednesday's surprise reversal he had been expected to serve the maximum time after vowing he wasn't going to show any remorse for a crime he says he didn't commit.