FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2016, file photo, actor and comedian Bill Cosby is assisted as he leaves after a court appearance in Norristown, Pa. A Pennsylvania appeals court on Monday, April 25, 2016, has rejected Cosby's attempt to halt his criminal case because of what he called a decade-old deal not to prosecute him. The 78-year-old Cosby is facing trial over a 2004 encounter at his home with a then-Temple University employee. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

Preliminary hearing date set for Bill Cosby in Pennsylvania

NORRISTOWN, Pa. – A date has been set for a preliminary hearing in the criminal sex assault case against Bill Cosby.

The married comedian will appear May 24 in a Pennsylvania courthouse to face charges over a 2004 encounter at his home with a then-Temple University employee. The woman says she was drugged and molested. Cosby says they engaged in consensual sex acts.

Tuesday’s hearing announcement comes a day after an appeals court rejected Cosby’s attempt to throw out his case because of what he called a decade-old deal not to prosecute him.

A former prosecutor has said he promised to never prosecute Cosby and urged him to testify in the woman’s lawsuit.

The release of that testimony last year led a new prosecutor to arrest him.

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