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Danny Masterson, star of “That 70s Show”, convicted of two counts of rape

Danny Masterson, star of “That 70s Show”, convicted of two counts of rape

This is the second trial he faces after the first, which ended last November, saw a divided jury vote to acquit him of three charges.

The actor Danny Mastersonrecognized by the popular sitcom “That 70s Show”was sentenced this Wednesday in Los Angeles on two counts of rape and awaits a third sentence

This is the second trial he faces after the first, which ended last November, saw a divided jury vote to acquit him of three charges.

Masterson, who faces a sentence ranging from 30 years to life in prison for these two crimes, is accused of raping three women in his Hollywood Hills home between 2001 and 2003.and it remains for the jury to finish issuing its decision on the third charge, leaving the decision today deadlocked but with a vote that, until now, is in favor of guilty.

The case, according to the specialized portal Variety, put the Church of Scientology at the center of the debate, to which both the victims and the convicted person and other members who intervened so that the case did not prosper in Justice belonged.

Danny Masterson trial

In closing arguments, the prosecutor Ariel Anson argued that Masterson had taken advantage of his position as a “member” of the church to rape the victims after having “drugged” them without fear of repercussions: “Like all predators, the defendant carefully searched for his prey,” he argued.

He added: “The church taught its victims that rape is not rape, that you cause this and, above all, you cannot go to the police. What better hunting ground? For Scientology, the defendant is a celebrity and is untouchable.”

The defendant’s defense, for its part, argued that the prosecution invoked Scientology to distract attention from alleged inconsistencies in the testimonies of the victims.

Although this trial was based on the same three counts as the previous one, the same information and witnesses, the judge Charlaine Olmedo He stressed before the start of the trial that it was a completely new one and for which the evidence produced in the process should be evaluated without taking into account what was publicized by the media last year.

Source: Ambito

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