Danny Masterson is a “defendant for whom no never meant no,” said Deputy LA County District Attorney Reinhold Mueller today in his closing argument in the former That ‘70s Show star’s rape trial. “If you were incapacitated in his bed, he would rape you,” the prosecutor said in a downtown LA courtroom Tuesday of the alleged incidents at Masterson’s Hollywood Hills home in the early years of the 21st century. “If you were in a relationship with him for any period of time he would control you,” Mueller added of Masterson, who sat nearby with his defense team with an impassive look on his face. “He believed he was entitled to have sex with you anytime he wanted, and if you said no, he doesn’t care,” Mueller went on to say, with images up on the screen next to him of one-time Masterson girlfriend Jane Doe #3 and the two other Jane Does at the core of the criminal case.
Masterson is charged with three counts of forcible rape, and faces up to 45 years in state prison if found guilty by the jury. “We are all accountable for our actions,” Mueller stated as he fervently and sometimes vividly laid out the parameters of consent in a relatively fast-paced presentation. “Having consent in the past doesn’t mean you get to do it in the future,” he noted. “Just because someone may not say the word no, that’s not a green light to go ahead.” “This is not black and white, everybody processes this differently,” Mueller said of the perspectives that the trio of Jane Does in this matter had on what allegedly occurred to them, the context, their and Masterson’s membership in the Church of Scientology, and the time it took them to go to law enforcement. “It’s complicated …you don’t want to be a victim and you don’t want to call him a rapist,
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