A judge agreed today to let five additional accusers testify at Bill Cosby's April 2 sexual assault retrial.
Judge Steven O'Neill said prosecutors can choose the witnesses from a group of eight women whose allegations date as far back as 1982.
The women include model Janice Dickinson.
An alleged assault in 2004 led to Cosby's only criminal charges.
Prosecutors want to show he had a pattern of misconduct over a five-decade span.
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At his first trial, which ended in a deadlock, prosecutors had tried to call 13 other accusers to testify.
The judge allowed only one to take the stand.
Attorneys for Cosby, who is now 80, have said the women's memories are tainted at best and asked the judge to bar them from testifying.
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