Masterson is a member, and all three women are former members. Scientology played an outsized role during the trial. “Maybe it's because there is no evidence of force or violence.” “Miss Anson presented a case as if she was arguing a drugging case,” Cohen said.
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During the defense's closing, Cohen told jurors that the women's accounts are so full of inconsistencies that there is more than enough reasonable doubt for jurors to acquit Masterson.Ĭohen emphasized the lack of any physical evidence of drugging, with the investigation that led to Masterson's arrest coming some 15 years after the alleged rapes. Masterson, 47, has pleaded not guilty to raping three women at his home between 20. Olmedo rejected the motion, saying that the prosecution was acting within the bounds of her pre-trial decision by allowing them to assert that the women were drugged. And he does it over and over and over again.”Īfter closing arguments, Masterson's attorney Philip Cohen made a motion for a mistrial, one of several that he made during the three-week trial, because of the prosecution's mention of drugging, which is not part of the charges. “The defendant makes that choice for these victims. “You don't want to have sex? You don't have a choice,” Deputy District Attorney Ariel Anson told the jury. Prosecutors said in their closing argument Tuesday that Masterson drugged the women in order to assault them, then relied on his status as a prominent member in the Church of Scientology to avoid consequences for decades.
Late last year, a jury was unable to reach a verdict in the case against Masterson involving rape allegations by three women, and Los Angeles Judge Charlaine Olmedo declared a mistrial. They deliberated for about 3 and a half hours before going home, without asking any questions or giving an indication of how discussions were going. The jury of seven women and five men got the case in the morning when prosecutors finally finished their rebuttal after all-day closing arguments a day earlier. Jurors in Danny Masterson's rape retrial finished their first day of deliberations Wednesday without reaching a verdict in the case against the former “That '70s Show” star.
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