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A Pennsylvania judge ordered Bill Cosby to stand trial for sexual assault, ruling on Tuesday that there was enough evidence for the entertainer to be criminally tried on charges that he attacked a woman in 2004 after giving her drugs.
The ruling came after a preliminary hearing that Cosby, 78, attended in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
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Witnesses testified about statements that Cosby and his accuser, Andrea Constand, gave to police in 2005 about the incident.
Cosby said "thank you" to the judge after she announced her decision.
More than 50 women have come forward over the past two years to accuse Cosby of rape and other sexual wrongdoing. Most involve encounters said to have occurred a decade or more ago.
In the only criminal prosecution of him so far, Cosby was charged in December with sexually assaulting a woman in Pennsylvania in 2004.
The 78-year-old comedian, who personified the model American family man in his long-running hit sitcom "The Cosby Show," has denied engaging in any non-consensual sexual behavior, though he has acknowledged marital infidelity.
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