Danny Masterson: Jury enters 3rd day of deliberations in rape retrial
LOS ANGELES - Jurors began their third day of deliberations Friday in the retrial of "That '70s Show" actor Danny Masterson, who is charged with raping three women at his Hollywood Hills home between 2001 and 2003.The downtown Los Angeles jury was handed the case before 10 a.m.
Wednesday after just over a day of closing arguments by attorneys.Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo sent the seven-woman, five- man panel back to continue its discussions Friday morning after jurors watched portions again of a videotaped January 2017 interview by two Los Angeles Police Department detectives and one of the alleged victims -- Masterson's former longtime girlfriend.
The panel had asked Thursday to see the video again and to look at transcripts from the interview.The jury is the second to hear the case against Masterson, 47, who was charged in 2020 with three counts of rape by force or fear involving the three women on separate occasions.During last year's trial, jurors leaned in favor of acquittal on all three counts -- voting 10-2 on one count, 8-4 on another and 7-5 on the third -- but they were unable to reach a unanimous decision, leading to the mistrial last Nov.
30.Prosecutors confirmed in January that they wanted to retry the actor, and the judge rejected a defense effort to have the charges dismissed.In his rebuttal argument Wednesday, Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller told the jury, "This defendant drugged and raped each one of these victims. ...
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