Danny Masterson To Be Sentenced On Rape Verdict In August; Incarcerated Actor Faces 30 Years In Prison – Update
07.06.2023 - 17:49
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UPDATE, 10: 15 AM: Facing up to 30 years behind bars for being found guilty last month of two counts of rape, Danny Masterson will be sentenced on August 4.
A week after an LA jury delivered its partial verdict, Judge Charlaine Olemdo announced the sentencing date today at a downtown hearing.
Taken away in handcuffs on May 31 at the conclusion of his sexual assault retrial, the That 70s Show actor is currently being held in custody in “administrative segregation” in the LA County Men’s Central Jail. Defense lawyers have indicated they will appeal last week’s verdict. However, as of today, no appeal has been filed.
The criminal trial panel was deadlocked on count 3 of the initial charges. That count concerned prominent Scientologist Masterson’s former long-term girlfriend and ex-Scientologist Christina B a.k.a. Jane Doe #3., who testified in both the first trial and the retrial. “I am devastated that he has dodged criminal accountability for his heinous conduct against me,” she said in a statement released after the retrial verdict was made public last week.
At an evidentiary hearing this morning on how some of the prosecution’s discovery material found its way to a Scientology lawyer, Judge Olemdo told attorneys on both sides that she wanted a probation report by the opening week of August. As a part of that report, the judge told the assembled defense and LA District Attorney reps that Masterson was not to be interviewed as a part of said report.
Out on bail of $3 million up until May 31, Masterson was arrested in 2020 over the alleged assaults that occurred in Hollywood Hills house between 2001 and 2003. The actor faced up to 45 years in a California state prison if found guilty on all three rape counts in the
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