Bill Cosby's attorney compared the comedian's seemingly endless list of sexual assault accusers to a "lynch mob" during a spirited TV interview defense of her client this week.

"Through the decades, we have seen what we used to call lynch mobs, where people turned and pointed the finger at one person and accused that one person of doing something that they did not do, and they were filed into the court, one after another, to say, 'He did it, he did it, she did it, she did it' when it was not the case," Monique Pressley told CNN. "That happened often in the '60s and '70s in this country."

Pressley also took exception with the exceedingly long amount of time some accusers have allowed to elapse before now stepping forward to charge the legendary comedian with drugging and abusing them.

"The only way for a woman to get the justice that she seeks -- and that, if her allegation is true, that she deserves -- is to come forward [immediately]," she said. "And even if the reasons that the women did not do that are legitimate ones, what cannot happen --in my opinion, in the United States -- is that 40 years later there is a persecution tantamount to a witch hunt where there was no prosecution timely and there was no civil suit timely."

Pressley stressed that her 78-year-old client is innocent until proven guilty and hinted that what she sees as PR stunts, like 35 of Cosby's 46 public accusers posing for the cover of New York magazine to give greater voice to their allegations, should't make any difference.

"People waited far too long to want to discuss these matters at all. So where we stand right now is with people attempting to do through media and through public opinion what they cannot do and have failed to do in a court of law," Pressley added.

Beyond that, Pressley said her client would not be addressing the New York magazine piece.