Actor Danny Masterson is seeking to overturn his 2023 rape convictions with a new habeas petition that claims his former lead attorney failed to put on an adequate defense at his retrial. Masterson also alleges a Los Angeles County judge allowed a “barrage of anti-Scientology evidence” at his second trial, which was held five months after an initial jury hung on all counts, resulting in a November 2022 mistrial.

The former star of the Fox hit That ’70s Show is currently serving a sentence of 30 years to life in a California prison after he was convicted of raping two women at his Hollywood Hills home during his sitcom heyday in 2003. He previously filed a direct appeal that is pending.

In his new habeas petition filed Monday and obtained by Rolling Stone , Masterson, 49, a

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