Danny Masterson Rape Trial Sees Defense Clash With Jane Doe #3 Over Inconsistencies In Testimony
deadline.comDetermined to expunge almost any mention of Scientology from Danny Masterson’s rape trial, defense attorney Phillip Cohen told the jury from the beginning that consistency would be core of his client’s case.
That vow was very much on display Thursday as the lawyer sought to spotlight the supposed inconsistencies in the testimony of Jane Doe #3.
Still, Cohen didn’t appear to be able to shake the witness’ conviction of what occurred with then-boyfriend Masterson in an alleged sexual assault at his Hollywood Hills home in December 2001. “If someone has sex with you when you are unconscious, that is rape, sir!” Jane Doe #3/CB said this morning, sweeping aside a discussion of whether she had too much to drink and frequently blacked out that particular night. “I was hoping he would fix what he did, and he did not,” the witness added of the couple’s eventual February 2002 break-up.
Picking up where the downtown Los Angeles trial left off Tuesday, Cohen methodically went through the timeline of the alleged assault laid out previously by Jane Doe #3.
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