For better or worse. Danny Masterson and wife Bijou Phillips have stuck together in good times and bad.
10.01.2023 - 20:43 / deadline.com
A Los Angeles judge ruled today that Danny Masterson will have to stand trial again on a trio of rape charges.
With the now bearded That ‘70s Show alum in the downtown courtroom Tuesday, Judge Charlaine Olmedo rejected a defense motion to dismiss the case and formally set March 29 as the start of a second trial with jury selection. After the first trial was declared a mistrial on November 30, the LA Superior Court judge at that time quickly penciled in a March 27 date for the kick-off of a second trial.
Ending weeks of hesitancy, LA County Deputy District Attorneys Reinhold Mueller and Ariel Anson announced near the beginning of the today’s session that they would indeed prosecute a second trial.
Just under two months after the first trial resulted in a hung jury and mistrial, today’s hearing in the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center follows a January 5 filing by Masterson attorneys Phillip K. Cohen and Karen Goldstein asking Judge Olmedo to use her judicial discretion to toss out the old case.
Not unexpected, the motion specifically took exception with the testimony of the three Jane Does at the heart of the case.
“The contradictory nature of their trial testimony is not going to credibly change,” the 16-page paperwork stated, drawing extensively from an interview with the jury foreman on behind closed doors impressions of the key witnesses. Today, as Judge Olmedo pointed out that new witnesses and new evidence could certainly change any jury outcome in a second trial, Cohan unsuccessful argued for the motion after the DA’s office made it clear they were ready for a Round 2.
First arrested in 2020 over claims that occurred between 2001 and 2003, Masterson was taking a hard look at up to 45 years in a
For better or worse. Danny Masterson and wife Bijou Phillips have stuck together in good times and bad.
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