Bill Cosby, Donald Trump: Who else has Bruce Castor defended?

BRUCE Castor is an American attorney who was responsible for Bill Cosby's release from jail on June 30, 2021.

He was also involved in former president Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.

Who has Bruce Castor defended?

Bruce Castor served two terms as the district attorney for Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

He also had a stint as the Pennsylvania solicitor general.

Castor, 59, earned his law degree from Washington and Lee University.

The 59-year-old has since worked as a criminal defense lawyer.

He is most famous for his unapologetic defense of his decision in 2005 not to prosecute Bill Cosby after a Temple University employee, Andrea Constand, accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting her.

13 years later, Cosby was tired and convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, including the sexual assault of Constand.

Despite the victory for Cosby's victims, on June 30, 2021, Cosby was released from jail after serving two years of his three - 10-year sentence because of an unwritten deal he had struck back in 2005 with Castor.

This unwritten deal was struck by Castor to prevent Cosby from pleading the Fifth Amendment in ongoing civil litigation, as a result Cosby was released because the conviction and trial violated his due-process rights.

In 2002, when Castor was a district attorney, he fought the release from prison of a man who was exonerated of a rape conviction by a DNA test.

The prisoner, Bruce Godschalk, had confessed to detectives but recanted long before his trial, but Castor had opposed allowing his DNA to be tested.

Back in 2019, Castor was the head attorney on former President Donald Trump's impeachment defense team for his second impeachment trial.

Is Bruce Castor married?

For over 30 years, Castor has been married to his wife Elizabeth Pierce.

While maintaining a low profile throughout Castor's political career, according to her Facebook page, in 1986 she graduated from Pennsylvania State University.

Together the couple had two children, Bruce Less III, 29, and Alexandra, 28.

Their son followed in his father's footsteps and became a district attorney himself, graduating from Duquesne University with a law degree, as of October 2017 Castor III has been licensed in the state of Pennsylvania.

Their daughter also went into criminal justice and as of 2019 worked in the Montgomery County Courthouse.