LOS ANGELES — The jury weighing the rape costs towards “That ’70s Present” star Danny Masterson introduced Friday it was deadlocked.
Los Angeles County Superior Court docket Charlaine F. Olmedo informed the panel to come back again on Nov. 28 and check out once more.
“You’ve gotten been deliberating for an inadequate period of time,” Olmedo stated earlier than excusing them.
Masterson, who’s charged with raping three girls at his Hollywood Hills dwelling from 2001 to 2003, faces as much as 45 years in jail if convicted on all three counts of forcible rape.
The panel composed of seven girls and 5 males started its first full day of deliberations Wednesday, a day after Masterson’s protection crew and prosecutors made their closing arguments within the intently watched trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket.
Masterson, 46, has denied all of the allegations leveled towards him by the three girls, who’re all former members of the Church of Scientology, to which the actor nonetheless belongs.
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Dua Anjum reported from Los Angeles and Corky Siemaszko from New York Metropolis.
