{"id":2162843,"date":"2025-11-17T21:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2162843"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:48:23","slug":"danny-masterson-appeal-argues-defense-attorneys-pushback-on-accusers-scientology-was-too-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/danny-masterson-appeal-argues-defense-attorneys-pushback-on-accusers-scientology-was-too-weak\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Masterson Appeal Argues Defense Attorney\u2019s Pushback on Accusers, Scientology Was Too Weak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005194\/\">Danny Masterson<\/a>, the former \u201cThat 70s Show\u201d star serving a 30-year prison sentence for raping two women, filed an appeal that argues his defense attorney failed to call witnesses who could have discredited his accusers and pushed back on prosecution claims that Scientology strived to silence them, according to legal documents obtained by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0569744\/\">TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The petition for habeas corpus filed Sunday also says Masterson\u2019s lawyer, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12276437\/\">Philip Cohen<\/a>, failed to \u201cpresent any of an unparalleled trove of evidence\u201d that would have undermined his accusers\u2019 credibility. The filing says Masterson implored <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1396971\/\">Cohen<\/a> to call rebuttal witnesses, but he refused, relying instead on cross-examination of prosecution testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Masterson was convicted of two&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Masterson, the former \u201cThat 70s Show\u201d star serving a 30-year prison sentence for raping two women, filed an appeal that argues his defense attorney failed to call witnesses who could have discredited his accusers and pushed back on prosecution claims that Scientology strived to silence them, according to legal documents obtained by TheWrap. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2162844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2162843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Danny-Masterson-Appeal-Argues-Defense-Attorneys-Pushback-on-Accusers-Scientology.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162845,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162843\/revisions\/2162845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}