Danny Masterson's attorneys have filed a habeas corpus petition, alleging a biased law enforcement investigation and ineffective assistance of counsel during the actor's 2023 trial, which resulted in Masterson being convicted of raping two women . The petition, filed by Masterson's attorney Eric Multhaup on Monday, asks an appellate court to consider a variety of arguments in hopes of convincing the court to grant Masterson an evidentiary hearing. In the petition, Masterson alleges, among several items, that his attorney during the trial, Philip Cohen, failed to call witnesses who may have contradicted Masterson's victims during his trial. "This petition contains eight separate ineffective assistance claims relating to a broad array of defense evidence that was not adequately investigated
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