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Actor Danny Masterson<\/a> is again on trial, going through prices for the alleged rape of three ladies at his Hollywood-area dwelling between 2001 and 2003.<\/p>\n

The retrial started on Monday with opening statements from Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller. He claimed the Church of Scientology<\/a>, to which Masterson belongs, helped cowl up allegations that the That \u201970s Show<\/em> actor drugged and raped three ladies.<\/p>\n

Masterson, 47, has pleaded not responsible to all three prices of rape in opposition to him. He is going through as much as 45 years in jail, if convicted.<\/p>\n

Actor and former Scientologist Leah Remini<\/a> stated she was current in court docket for the opening statements. She claimed Masterson\u2019s legal professionals tried to have her thrown out of the courtroom over incorrect assumptions she could be referred to as as a witness to the trial.<\/p>\n

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2. Before opening arguments started, Danny’s Scientology-controlled legal professionals tried to get the choose to throw me out of the courtroom primarily based on the false premise that that they had deliberate to name me as a witness within the trial.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Leah Remini (@LeahRemini) April 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI attended to show my support for the women who were not only brutally raped by Danny but then subjected to years of harassment by Scientology,\u201d Remini, 52, wrote.<\/p>\n

Remini has been a loud voice of opposition in opposition to the Church of Scientology since her departure in 2013. She claimed the Church and its chief David Miscavige are attempting to \u201cwaste the court\u2019s time with embarrassing, petty attempts to get someone who is supporting survivors of sexual violence thrown out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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4. This is what occurs when David Miscavige directs your protection; you waste the court docket’s time with embarrassing, petty makes an attempt to get somebody who’s supporting survivors of sexual violence thrown out.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Leah Remini (@LeahRemini) April 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Mueller and his workforce have tried to color Masterson as a serial rapist who has been protected by high-ranking officers within the Church of Scientology. They claimed he, on separate events, put medicine into the drinks of a longtime girlfriend and two different ladies he knew via the Church earlier than he raped them.<\/p>\n

Direct dialogue of drugging was lacking from final yr\u2019s authentic trial \u2014 that resulted in a mistrial<\/a> when a jury deadlocked on all three counts \u2014 with Mueller as an alternative having to suggest it via the testimony of the ladies, who stated they had been woozy, disoriented and at instances unconscious on the nights they described the actor raping them.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo is permitting the direct assertion on the second trial.<\/p>\n

Masterson\u2019s lawyer, Philip Cohen, has denied his shopper ever drugged anybody. He went as far as to say one of many accusers watched Masterson make her a drink that he had allegedly drugged her with.<\/p>\n

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Lawyers for each side acknowledged that there isn’t a forensic proof of any substances Masterson might have given the ladies as a result of the police investigation that led to the 2 trials didn’t start till about 15 years after the occasions.<\/p>\n

Cohen informed jurors that one of many ladies, a younger actor who spent a night alone with Masterson at his home in 2003, made no point out of drugging on the time. He asserted the sufferer solely claimed Masterson drugged her years later when the investigation started \u2014 a results of accusers \u201ccross-pollinating\u201d info, in response to Cohen.<\/p>\n

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Cohen defined to the jury that there aren’t any drug-related prices on this case.<\/p>\n

Mueller alternatively claimed the three victims, all of whom had been members of the Church of Scientology, had their tales suppressed by the Church, who insisted what they\u2019d skilled was not rape.<\/p>\n