Actor/stand-up comedian Bill Cosby arrives for sentencing for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse on September 24, 2018 in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

The verdict was read in a Santa Monica, California, court room on Tuesday after the jury began deliberating on Thursday, perThe New York Timesand theAssociated Press.

Huth filed a civil lawsuit in 2014 seeking damages for emotional distress.

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Judy Huth appears at a press conference outside the Los Angeles Police Department’s Wilshire Division station in Los Angeles about her lawsuit against Bill Cosby alleging he abused her at the Playboy Mansion around 1974 when she was 15-years-old. As Cosby awaits a verdict in his sexual assault case in Pennsylvania, the comedian’s civil lawyers are fighting civil lawsuits against him by 10 women around the country. A trial date may be set later in June 2017 for Huth’s sexual battery case

The statute of limitations had expired for a criminal case, but California law allows victims of underage sexual abuse to file civil lawsuits decades after the alleged incidents take place.

The high court’s decision also prevented the prosecutor from refiling the criminal charges.

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source: people.com