Manuel Roig-Franzia / he Washington Post
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Bill Cosby, a once-beloved father figure and moralizing African-American cultural icon, was sentenced to 3 to 10 years in state prison Tuesday in a sex-assault case that was capped by the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
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