FILE – In this Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, file photo, actor Danny Masterson appears at his arraignment in Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles. On Tuesday, May 18, 2021, prosecutors are set to begin presenting evidence to a judge as they attempt to show “That ’70s Show” actor Masterson should stand trial for the rapes of three women.
FILE – In this June 7, 2017, file photo, Danny Masterson appears at the CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tenn. On Tuesday, May 18, 2021, prosecutors are set to begin presenting evidence to a judge as they attempt to show “That ’70s Show” actor Masterson should stand trial for the rapes of three women.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors on Tuesday are set to begin presenting evidence to a judge as they attempt to show “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson should stand trial in the rapes of three women.
Masterson, 45, who has pleaded not guilty and has been free on bail since his June arrest, is charged in a Los Angeles County court with three counts of rape by force or fear.
At his preliminary hearing scheduled to begin Tuesday morning, prosecutors say they will present evidence that he raped a 23-year-old woman sometime in 2001, a 28-year-old woman in April of 2003, and a 23-year-old woman between October and December of 2003. Prosecutors have said all of the attacks happened in his home.
He could face up to 45 years in prison if convicted.
Such hearings generally provide a limited glimpse at the broader evidence that would be presented should the case be ordered to trial.
At a hearing last year, the actor’s attorney Thomas Mesereau, who also represented Bill Cosby and Michael Jackson in their sexual misconduct cases, said Masterson “is absolutely not guilty and we’re going to prove it.”
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