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Excuse my surprise here. I know nothing about this case. I never saw the tv show and don't know this person. But, I am so surprised this rich famous guy gets 30 years when my entire 50 plus year life has been constantly peppered with stories of randos getting community service and probation for raping women, and even children. More than one of them have recieved supreme court appointments. What percent of convicted rapists get sentenced to 30 years or more in the USA? I asked AI and it claims less than 4%. Was he not in the right frat or something? Like, remember Brock the fratboy who raped an unconcious woman in a dumpster enclosure and got let off? I don't understand what goes on, and I don't trust it. That symbol of blind justice has a terrible conotation in this context.
I'm perhaps being too edgy, forgive me. But, you must see that even if this guy deserves 30 years, which I am not disputing. How is there such a wild variance in American "Justice" ? Its just wild to me.
Excuse me but you should never mention brock turner without the asshole judge Aaron perskey who let him off with the "boys will be boys" rhetoric. Or Dan Turner his gross dad who wrote the letter about how "his son's future is ruined".
These are the poster children of empowered toxic masculinity.
Anyone ever need a perfect example of unchecked white male privilege just need to look at these three fuckwits.
Brock Allen Turner goes by "Allen Turner", just in case anyone wanted to know.
Alan Turner, the rapist? The Stanford swimmer who raped someone? That Alan?
a few years ago, he gained more noteriety than he should he was intially charge, the moment he was found guilty ASTHON kutcher and milas kunis immediately went on camera to VOUCH for him.
That's not why he was convicted as a famous rich white guy, that was just some lifelong friends standing by him. They didn't deny his guilt, they just asked for leniency for their friend, which was rejected.
He was found guilty because the judge didn't let it be about his celebrity, OR his membership in Scientology. He was treated like any other citizen accused of multiple rapes. That's how it should be for every citizen.
He must not have had any dirt on anyone powerful. A lot of people who were going to Epstein's Island or his parties weren't necessarily pedophiles. They just wanted to be part of his circle enough to not not care about the rape. They wanted to be trusted by his circle and the method of binding those people together was sharing in crimes and have blackmail on each other. I'm guessing that Masterson never got into one of those circles, so no one powerful ever made any phone calls to the investigators or judge on his behalf.
But it isn't, that's the point.
I've just checked and in Spain maximum jail time for rape with aggravating circumstances is 15 years. People usually get ~20 years for manslaughter. He was found guilty of 2 counts of rape and got 30 years to life. I'm as baffled as you are.
There were 4 victims, including his wife. All 4 were members of Scientology and kicked out.
The sentence was about the rapes, but also the rape culture in Scientology.
So you think that if someone is accused of 10 murders but the jury find him guilty only of one he should still be convicted like he committed 10?
If I had to guess, it's because he either didn't have enough money to bribe anyone (he wasn't rich enough, this seems likely since it says his net worth is only 8 million), or he got unlucky with a judge that just isn't corrupt. It may be a combination of both.
He had two jury trials.
The jury determines guilt while the judge sets the sentence.
if you want a good read, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Masterson#Interference_by_the_Church_of_Scientology
The church couldn't pull it off and he is only worth about 4 mil, not enough to get out of it.
I’m surprised as well given that the first jury hung on all charges and these were older cases from 2001 and 2003.
Based on the CA statute it looks like he got the max for two rapes with bodily injury. Also potentially a gun was involved in one incident, and there was a pattern of other assaults not part of the case.
Sorry I don’t have much detail beyond that, tried to look it up quickly.