In response to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that overturned Bill Cosby’s conviction, the Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee plans to propose legislation requiring future non-prosecution agreements to be put in writing. The 2005 agreement that freed Cosby was oral, although there was a written press release referring to the agreement. A non-prosecution agreement is an agreement not to prosecute in the future. Comedian Bill Cosby was convicted in 2018 of aggravated indecent assault, after Temple University employee Andrea Constand accused him of drugging her in 2004 and molesting her. Her name was made public in a civil lawsuit seeking a financial award for the incident. Ultimately it was settled for $3.38 million. During that suit, Cosby made self-incriminating statements that were later used against him in a criminal trial; a trial he was not expecting when he made those statements, based on the verbal non-prosecution agreement. Montgomery County’s then-District Attorney Bruce …