Danny Masterson appeals his rape convictions as ex Bijou Phillips attends their daughter's Christmas pageant Danny Masterson's attorney Cliff Gardner officially filed his 246-page appeal to Superior Court Los Angeles Judge Charlaine Olmedo on Wednesday after she sentenced him in September 2023 to 30 years to life in prison on two counts of felony rape.
- before sexually assaulting them in 2003, but he claims the encounters were completely consensual (pictured in 2023)] 'The trial court violated Mr. Masterson's rights to a fair trial by complaining witnesses had a strong financial incentive to characterize the long past sexual encounters as forcible rape,' Gardner wrote in the legal doc.
The disgraced 48-year-old allegedly drugged two women - referred to in court filings as 'J.B.'
During the retrial, 18-year police veteran Detective Esther Myape testified that she felt the 'ongoing communications between the complaining witnesses did not in fact contaminate their testimony.'.
- before sexually assaulting them in 2003, but he claims the encounters were completely consensual.
