Former That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson is blaming his trial lawyer for his 2023 rape convictions and accusing his defence team of “failure of due diligence.”

Masterson, currently serving 30 years to life in prison for raping two women, filed a petition for habeas corpus — a legal action challenging the lawfulness of his imprisonment — on Monday, which blamed his trial lawyer, Philip Cohen, for failing to call any witnesses and for not pushing back on prosecutors’ claims about Scientology, Variety reports .

Masterson, 49, “implored (Cohen) to present at least a minimal modicum of defense evidence, but counsel refused,” according to the filing.

“Cohen had a longstanding aversion to presenting affirmative defense evidence in the cases he tried,” the filing said.

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