A judge on Friday said “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson must stand trial on three counts of rape after hearing days of dramatic and emotional testimony from three women who said he attacked them in 2001 and 2003.
www.breitbart.com
He played the cool wild guy in the popular tv series
. It was a very well written and funny
Turns out the actor is a rapist
Just "love it" how so many fail to both read an included link and see the details beyond the sensationalist headlines.
Some select excerpts;
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Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo made the determination after the prosecution laid out its evidence over four days. She said she found the women’s testimony credible for the purposes of a preliminary hearing, where the bar for sufficient evidence is much lower than at trial.
The forthcoming trial will represent the rare prosecution of a Hollywood figure in the #MeToo era despite dozens of investigations by police and the Los Angeles district attorney, most of which have ended without charges.
Masterson denies the rape charges. His attorney, Thomas Mesereau, said Masterson had consensual sex with the women and that he would prove his client’s innocence.
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During the hearing, Mesereau repeatedly challenged the women on discrepancies in their stories in the years since they said they were raped and suggested that the prosecution was tainted by anti-religious bias against the Church of Scientology.
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Another defense attorney, Sharon Appelbaum, said the three women had colluded to form a “sisterhood” that “seems to want to take down Mr. Masterson and take down Scientology.”
Appelbaum said they had coordinated their stories over the years, making them increasingly similar, adding and subtracting details that didn’t fit and changing stories they previously told police.
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The allegations happened at the height of Masterson’s fame, when he starred as Steven Hyde on Fox TV’s retro sitcom “That ’70s Show” from 1998 to 2006 alongside Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and Topher Grace.
He had reunited with Kutcher on the Netflix Western sitcom “The Ranch” when the LAPD investigation of him was revealed in March 2017. The news did not have immediate career repercussions for Masterson, but later in the year, after allegations against Harvey Weinstein shook Hollywood, he was written off the show.
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A judge on Friday said “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson must stand trial on three counts of rape after hearing days of dramatic and emotional testimony from three women who said he attacked them in 2001 and 2003.
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Would seem our society is long past due for those in the 'dating scene' to have ready copies of "Coitus Consent Contract" forms with them to be signed, witnessed, and notarized sometime between first drink and last item of clothing coming off. Maybe also body cameras recording the full date and "back at someone's place" encounters to avoid the "she said/he said" differences that might occur on the sober morning after.
