{"id":140666,"date":"2025-11-17T20:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140666"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:12:09","slug":"danny-masterson-alleges-anti-scientology-bias-in-petition-to-overturn-rape-convictionunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140666","title":{"rendered":"Danny Masterson alleges anti-Scientology bias in petition to overturn rape convictionUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostFormer television actor Danny Masterson claims a mix of failures by his defence lawyer and a police investigation that was biased against Scientology led to his conviction on two counts of rape, according to a lengthy motion filed on Monday.<br \/>\nMasterson, 49, was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison in September 2023 after a jury found he sexually assaulted two women in the early 2000s, while at the height of his fame starring as the mercurial Steven Hyde in the sitcom That 70s Show.<br \/>\nMasterson&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3333169\/danny-masterson-alleges-anti-scientology-bias-petition-overturn-rape-conviction?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostFormer television actor Danny Masterson claims a mix of failures by his defence lawyer and a police investigation that was biased&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}