The beginning of the second week of testimony in Danny Masterson’s rape trial hurtled towards another request from the defense for a mistrial. “I don’t throw it out there easily,” lead defense attorney Phillip Cohen said Monday of the latest request to pull the plug on the criminal case against the former That ’70s Show star. “In a criminal trial, the defense’s credibility is everything,” the lawyer added, on day that tales of a defense-side private investigator speaking to a witness in the courthouse last week were disclosed during this morning’s testimony.
The first witness on the stand today was Sean Fabos, a friend of Jane Doe #1/Jen B and employee of her parents back in the early 2000s during the period two alleged rapes by Masterson occurred.
Shocking the court out of a Monday morning lethargy, Fabos testified to Deputy L.A. County District Attorney Reinhold Mueller that he had been approached by the defense team’s private investigator in the hall outside the courtroom on the afternoon of October 20 while waiting to give testimony.
Fabos said the P.I. asked him whether he had been on a trip to Florida with Jen B and her family. Having met with the Los Angeles D.A.’s office at around noon that Thursday, the witness today said the question from the P.I.
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