Masterson has been interned at Corcoran State Prison in Central California and will be eligible for parole in 2042 – when he’s 66 years old
Danny Masterson has been moved to Corcoran State Prison in Central California, where infamous cult leader Charles Manson spent years of his life.
The former That ‘70s Show star, 47, was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison after he was found guilty of raping two women over two decades ago.
Just last week, Masterson was denied bail pending appeal over fears the convicted rapist has “every incentive to flee”.
The Wrap first reported that, according to state records, Masterson has officially been moved to Corcoran after spending time in an LA County lockup and later the North Kern State Prison intake facility.
Records show that the actor will be eligible for parole in 2042 – when he’s 66 years old.
Blogger Jeffrey Augustine reports that Masterson will be housed in the prison’s Level 4 maximum security housing unit – the highest level of security available.
From what I understand, the evidence itself wasn’t so damning, it was his complete and total lack of a defense. There were no witnesses or testimony for the defense, and they seemed to rely solely on discrediting the prosecution, which they couldn’t do. It was declared a mistrial the first time, and then retried when he was found guilty on 2 of the 3 charges. It should also be mentioned that it seems as though his lawyers were from the Church of Scientology and were more concerned with sussing out what the LAPD had on David and Shelly Miscavige than on actually defending Masterson, so much so in fact that they subpoena’d records unrelated to the case which the judge ultimately threw out. Masterson was found guilty, and I believe that is the correct verdict, but I also think he was set up by his overlords to be a sacrificial lamb so they could try to get information from the LAPD that would otherwise be confidential. He never stood a chance, but I’m kind of OK with that. Sic Semper Rapists.
What evidence would there even be after 20 years? Unless there’s text message records or something like that I would guess it mostly came down to their word vs his anyway, no?
That’s exactly why it was so shocking to see him take such a harsh sentence. Typically in a case like this, the verdict is going to side with the defense because if it didn’t, anyone could start throwing wild accusations with no evidence in hopes of a conviction. The fact that it was a twenty year old case with twenty year old evidence and the lawyers couldn’t overcome that or even plea bargain him down to a lesser crime tells me that his lawyers weren’t really looking out for his best interest, but wanted to get through the system as fast as possible to avoid too bright a spotlight on Scientology.
I’m not disagreeing with you but, if his lawyers were that bad, how has he not appealed based on ineffective representation?
He’s a stooge to the Church. He is either a true believer, or the cult has even worse things on him.
Its probably also worth mentioning that his victims were also Scientologists, and therefore ‘forbidden’ from going to the police.
When they did, they were labelled ‘fair game’ and harrassed by the ‘church’.
So there was also a Civil suit - filed before but put on hold until after the Criminal trial - that has The Church Of Scientology itself as a co-defendent
One of the things Masterson’s lawyers were accused of doing was leaking discovery documents from the Criminal case to Scientology’s attorneys in the Civil case