Bill Cosby, an American comedian, was released from prison on Wednesday after his sexual assault conviction was overturned by Pennsylvania’s highest court.

Officials told ABC News that the 83-year-old Cosby walked out of the State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday afternoon.

Andrew Wyatt, Cosby’s spokesman, told the publication earlier on Wednesday that he will pick up the comedian from the prison.

As a result of what the court determined to be a violation of his rights during his criminal trial, Cosby was released.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Cosby was not prosecuted because of a “non-prosecution agreement” with a former prosecutor. “Cosby’s convictions and judgment of sentence are vacated, and he is discharged,” the justices said in their decision.

Cosby was sentenced to three to ten years in jail in 2018 after being convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his Pennsylvania residence in 2004.

Years later, same deposition was utilized to charge Cosby only days before the statute of limitations for sexual assault was supposed to expire, resulting in a mistrial in 2017 due to a jury deadlock.
Before the new verdict, he had only

served a little more than two years of his sentence.

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