Danny Masterson, convicted of raping two women in California, has filed an appeal citing trial errors and claiming the state's prosecution was flawed. His appeal brief challenges the credibility of his victims and argues for a reversal of his convictions.
Danny Masterson submitted a massive, admittedly “oversized” appeal brief in his California rape case Wednesday that challenges the credibility of his victims and claims a series of trial court errors “requires” the reversal of his convictions. The brief has yet to be accepted by the state’s Court of Appeal, but it lays out the arguments he believes are his best shot at overturning his two forcible rape convictions.
(If the court denies his request to extend his word limit, the brief will be edited down, his appellate lawyer Cliff Gardner tells CNN. Gardner, whose other clients include Eric and Lyle Menendez, shared the brief on his website along with a statement claiming he was working “toward Danny’s complete exoneration.” He claimed the state’s prosecution of the actor best known for his role on “The Ranch” was flawed. “The trial was rife with erroneous judicial rulings that skewed the jury’s view of the evidence against him, and there was a stunning amount of exculpatory evidence which was never presented to the jury,” Gardner said in a statement. He added that a separate petition known as a writ of habeas corpus would be filed soon by a different appellate lawyer and would document “additional defects in the trial process” while requesting Masterson’s release. Masterson, a prominent Scientologist, was charged in 2020 with forcibly raping three women on different occasions during the height of his sitcom fame in the early 2000s. An initial trial ended with a hung jury, but the follow-up jury found him guilty of raping two of the Jane Does. Both trials included emotional testimony from the three women. They all said Masterson drugged them before forcibly raping them
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