Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Celebrity Prison Treatment Exposed | Danny Masterson’s 30 to Life
Thu, 20 Feb 2025
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Chapter 1: What happened in Danny Masterson's trial?
Masterson was charged with three cases of rape, one per Jane Doe for three Jane Does. The jury had to convict him of at least two, or he would have not gone to prison. He's 47, he'll be 77 when he gets out.
He'll try and migrate toward the other, probably more the white collar criminals, and they'll either shrug him off or they'll be like, yeah, all right, you went to trial, you're saying you didn't do it, whatever. But eventually within three months, he'd be okay. In the federal system, that's not going to be like that in the state system.
My buddy actually knows several women that are locked up with Elizabeth Holmes. Oh, she's in rough shape. Yeah. You might. She went from a mansion straight into, you know, granted it's like it's a camp, but it still sucks. So she, they said she is miserable. Walks around, like doesn't want to take a shower. Like she's shuffling. She's mumbling to herself. Hey, this is Matt Cox.
I'm going to be interviewing Zach Morgan. He is a practicing attorney. We're going to be talking about the Danny Masterson case. He was recently found guilty of rape and other related charges, but Zach's going to fill us in on that. Also, Zach has a YouTube channel, and I'm going to let him introduce it. I think it's your...
friendly lawyer, Zach or something, but I'll let him introduce it real quick. Thanks a lot. Check out the video. My YouTube channel is your lawyer friend, Zach, L-A-W-Y-E-R. First of all, just for the sake, just to put it out there, I love that 70s show. And I haven't followed this case, by the way. I had no idea up until a few days ago, someone told me and I was like,
So I've watched like five videos on it on YouTube. And that's really the extent of my knowledge on the subject. You know, like, I don't know too, too much about, I understand they wouldn't let like cameras in. That's correct. So it's something like there's a lot of videos. There's some videos of him maybe walking here, walking there, but that's pretty much it.
So the basis of the story is that like 20 years ago, 15, 20 years ago. several women in Scientology that were in Scientology with him, uh, made allegations of, of him, of, uh, Danny, whatever Masterson, I'm not sure what we should call it. Masterson sounds more ominous. Uh, Masterson, uh, you know, whatever, force themselves on them or rape them, drug them, uh, various different,
types of assault. Sure. And, and, uh, then from what I understand that then, then they went to Scientology and suggested they wanted to press charges and they kind of, you know, persuaded them not to, or made a veiled threat that they would be, you know, excommunicated or I forget the term they use that they were like,
Yeah, so the term Scientology uses is suppressive person. If they're declared a suppressive person, their family that remains in Scientology is required to cease all communication of any kind with that person.
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Chapter 2: How is Elizabeth Holmes adjusting to prison life?
They're either outstanding lawyers who are just taxed to the point that they can't put on an adequate defense, not because they're incompetent, but because they don't have the resources.
Right.
Or the public defender's offices are so short that they'll take anybody out of law school. Even if they didn't do well and can't get hired in the private sector because they do well academically, the public defender's office still needs them. So there's sort of these two extremes, really good trial lawyers who just are strapped for resources and lawyers who are barely competent.
And you never know who you're going to get. And And so I have a ton of respect for anybody in the public defender's office, especially those who make a career out of it, because some of the most seasoned public defenders could be making $5 million a year in the private sector, but they feel called to represent those who need them most.
Yeah, that was definitely, I don't know if it was all of them, but definitely my experience with the public defenders that dealt with me. And here's the thing, or represented me, because I ended up having three of them ultimately. But yeah, and the truth is, it's like, like I didn't give him anything to work with. Like I'm overwhelmingly guilty.
So it's not like I can say that, you know, like they, they may have, they may have put things the way your phrase things the way I didn't, I wasn't appreciative of, but you know, nobody's asking me, you know? So like they're saying, Oh, it's 15 million. And I'm saying, Oh, it's 11, Phil 11, you know, even there. And so, I'll spot you four million. It's still $11 million, though. I'm good for it.
So, yeah, but I hear you. So, yeah, so he's OK. So he was so he's obviously he's actively trying to quash these cases. Back to Masterson. Sorry. He's actively trying to quash these allegations for. A decade. Another thing is how long does the statute go back? Is there a limitation?
There is, and this is where it really gets interesting under California law. Now, I'll give the caveat. I am not licensed in California. I can tell people my understanding of the law. They should not take this as legal advice. If you're running a similar situation to Danny Masterson in California, find a California licensed attorney. That's not me.
But California has a statute, and the best way to explain it is very similar to the federal RICO statute. So just a standalone rape or sexual assault charge has a statute of limitations of some very short period of time, two, three, four, five years. Some of these allegations occurred in the 90s. All of them occurred before 2010.
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Chapter 3: What are the allegations against Danny Masterson?
Yeah.
Because I can't physically overpower them. Right.
I get that.
Yeah. So he's not going to have an easy run of it. Even if it's only 10 years, that's going to be 10 miserable years. Yeah. A lot of it by yourself or with individuals with whom you don't want to spend time.
Right. Oh, yeah. And there there's some there are in the federal system, there are horrific individuals that will they will try and defend themselves. They will argue with with you about like they'll start talking about like in other countries, it's OK. It's for the age of consent is 14 or the age of this or, you know, 100 years ago, this would have been normal. It's like, what are you doing?
Like, maybe just don't talk about it. You're not making anybody feel better. Just because you could have married her on the Titanic, it sank. See how well that went for him, right? So, yeah, he's going to have a hard time. Listen, right now, probably the first 90 days is just horrific. I actually have a friend that does legal work for inmates, federal inmates, and so his name gets passed around.
And so he basically, he'll file motions for you. He's not an attorney, but He'll file motions for you and your family pays him very little money, but certainly not what a lawyer. A lawyer might pay $15,000. You pay a lawyer $15,000, might pay him $500 or $1,000. And honestly, probably get just as no offense to your profession. No, I get it.
get an outcome. Because here's the benefit prison lawyers have, jailhouse lawyers have. And even when they get out, if they still sort of do the jailhouse lawyer thing on the outside, as you know, the best thing and the worst thing about being incarcerated is you have enormous amounts of time to just do whatever you want. And if you spend hours in the library, that's how we get through law school.
We just read constantly. But then we get out in practice and we don't have time to read because we're in court, we're in meetings, we're filing motions, we're writing, we're briefing, and you don't read like you did when you were in law school. If I had the luxury of just reading cases all the time, I'd be an absolutely perfect lawyer.
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Chapter 4: How does the Scientology influence impact the case?
And people started writing his brother's law firm. And then his brother wasn't responding. His brother, people, family members called the law firm and his brother was like, my brother doesn't work here. My brother's a con man. What are you guys talking about? He doesn't work here.
1,500, 1,000, 2,000, 1,200.
I knew guys in prison that didn't even give Jim Keegan any money, wrote a letter to his brother, and his brother wrote him a check for $850. He's just desperate. He got his brother in a situation. So he took that money, he went out, and he opened what appeared to be a law firm. I want to say in Chicago. I have the article.
He opened a law firm and basically talking about it was for immigration as an immigration attorney. Collected over the next Eight months to a year, I think he collected almost half a million dollars from illegals that he was filing paperwork.
Even started printing out fake green cards or fake paperwork from the immigration whatever and giving it to these guys, thinking if they get pulled over and they give them the card and they realize it's fake, they'll arrest them. I don't have a problem. So this went on till eventually he came and he got arrested by the feds again, went back to back to back to prison.
But I mean, this guy has made a career of pretending to be an attorney. And because of he because he did for three or four years, he did legal work in prison. He could fool any attorney into knowing and into believing that he knew exactly what he was talking about. Yeah.
Amazing. I thought some of the creativity by people who are doing time is pretty impressive. You just sometimes wish that we had maybe redirected it towards something that's a little more practical. But there's some I don't like it when people say that people and people are in prison because they're idiots. No, people are in prison because they had some pretty darn good ideas.
They just got caught.
Yeah. But I was getting the comment section. I always get guys that tell me, well, if he was a good scam artist or if he was any good at being a con man, he wouldn't have got caught. Everybody gets caught.
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