Mistrial declared in actor Danny Masterson's rape trial

A judge declared a mistrial today after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked at the trial of That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson, who was charged with three rapes. Masterson, 46, was charged with the rape of three women, including a former girlfriend, in his Hollywood Hills home between 2001 and 2003. The jury foreman said only two jurors voted for conviction on the first count, four voted for conviction on the second count and five voted to convict on the third count. But at the Masterson trial, as at the Haggis trial, the #MeToo implications were largely eclipsed by the spectre of Scientology, despite the judge’s insistence that the church not become a de facto defendant. Cohen told jurors they could acquit Masterson if they thought he "actually and reasonably believed" the women consented to having sex.
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