Jurors wrapped up deliberations for the day 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.
panel -- which has spent about 5 1/2 days discussing the case and is due back in court Friday morning -- re-heard portions Thursday afternoon of the testimony of one of the alleged victims, who was a former longtime girlfriend of Masterson.
Prosecutors confirmed in January that they wanted to retry the actor, and Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo rejected a defense effort to have the charges dismissed. In his final remarks to the jury in the retrial, Mueller said the three alleged victims were -- like Masterson -- members of the"What happened after they were drugged -- they were raped by this man over here," the prosecutor said, pointing across the courtroom at Masterson. "... You have an opportunity to show there is justice. It does exist."
He said there was no forensic evidence to support the prosecution's contention that the alleged victims' drinks had been drugged by Masterson. Outside the jury's presence last Wednesday, the judge rejected Cohen's requests for either a mistrial, another chance to argue before the jury or a special jury instruction as a result of the prosecution's repeated references to the women allegedly being drugged.In December 2017, Netflix announced that Masterson had been fired from the Emmy-winning scripted comedy "The Ranch" amid sexual assault allegations.
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