Danny Masterson is continuing his fight to overturn a rape conviction.
According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly on Monday, November 17, the former That ’70s Show star partially blamed his trial attorney, Philip Cohen, for not calling any witnesses and for not pushing back on prosecutors’ claims about Scientology.
Masterson’s appellate lawyers alleged that their client “implored counsel to present at least a minimal modicum of defense evidence, but counsel refused.”
Us has reached out to Cohen for comment.
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Four women claimed in March 2017 that Masterson, 49, sexually assaulted them in the early 2000s. A fifth woman came forward in December 2017, claiming that while she was dating the actor, he “repeatedly raped

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