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Article snippet: Prosecutors, in opening remarks, said that and actor of drugging and sexually assaulting a Temple University employee at his nearby home in 2004. • A defense lawyer told jurors that the employee had made up the assault, citing 53 phone calls she made to Mr. Cosby after the incident, which he said showed she had not been attacked. • The trial in Norristown, Pa., near Philadelphia, is the only criminal case to arise from the many accusations made against Mr. Cosby by women, some of whom have come to watch. His wife did not attend. • The prosecution’s first witness was a second woman, Kelly Johnson, who said that Mr. Cosby attacked her in a Hotel Bel-Air bungalow in Los Angeles after having her swallow a large white pill. • Mr. Cosby, 79, has said he will not testify, but the complainant, Andrea Constand, 44, is set to offer her account in what is expected to be the most dramatic moment in the trial. A woman testified tearfully that two decades ago, he befriended her, won her trust, plied her with gifts, and then drugged and sexually abused her. Mr. Cosby is not being prosecuted for his alleged encounter with Ms. Johnson, but her testimony offered a stark rebuttal to his longstanding persona as an amiable comedian and beloved television dad. And her story closely parallels that of Andrea Constand, the woman Mr. Cosby is charged with assaulting. In 1996, in a bungalow at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, Ms. Johnson said, Mr. Cosby talked her into taking a pill that... Link to the full article to read more