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Massachusetts doctor accused of assaulting officer during Jan. 6 riot gets 9 months in prison

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WASHINGTON – A Massachusetts doctor was sentenced to prison Thursday for her role in the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol in Washington, where she’s accused of assaulting a police officer.

Nine month prison sentence

Jacquelyn Starer, of Ashland, will serve nine months behind bars along with 24 months of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay $4,000 in restitution and fines. 

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Jacquelyn Starer is accused of assaulting an officer at the Capitol

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Starer previously pleaded guilty to two felony counts of obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder and assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers. She also pleaded guilty to six misdemeanors, including entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.

Assaulted a police officer

According to court documents, Starer traveled to Washington for the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021. After the rally, she entered the Capitol via the East Rotunda doors shortly before 3 p.m. and made her way into the Rotunda. While in the Rotunda, court documents said Starer moved to the front of the police line, where she pushed up against another rioter and then was pushed back by a police officer. She then struck the police officer in the head with a closed fist and yelled profanity at her.

Court documents said Starer was later seen getting first aid after she was affected by a “chemical irritant” that had been deployed.

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The FBI says Starer later received first aid after being affected by a chemical irritant. 

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Starer, 71, was arrested in Ashland in December 2022.

WBZ-TV confirmed Starer used to practice at the Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain but is no longer active there. 

According to the FBI, more than 1,400 people have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riots. Almost 550 people have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.



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Former “That ’70s Show” star Danny Masterson appeals rape conviction

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Actor Danny Masterson, who is serving a sentence of 30 years to life in prison, is seeking to overturn his conviction for the rape of two women, with his attorneys arguing he did not receive a fair trial.

A Los Angeles jury found Masterson guilty last year of two counts of rape by force or fear for assaulting two women at his Hollywood Hills home in separate incidents in 2003 — during the same time he was starring on the Fox TV’s “That ’70s Show.” The jury deadlocked on the case involving a third alleged victim. The May 2023 trial followed a mistrial in November 2022.

Masterson, 48, is incarcerated at California Men’s Colony, a minimum- and medium-security prison in San Luis Obispo County.

Cliff Gardner, the attorney handling Masterson’s appeal, filed an appellant’s opening brief Tuesday that alleges witnesses told different versions of their stories over time. The brief also argues that evidence that would have helped Masterson’s defense was not presented due to what Gardner describes as erroneous rulings by the court. Gardner argues in the court filings that those factors support reversing the convictions. 

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LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 18: Actor Danny Masterson is arraigned on rape charges at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on Sept. 18, 2020, in Los Angeles. 

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Masterson’s defense argued at trial that he knew both women socially and his sexual relations with them were consensual.

“It is true, of course, that a defendant is not entitled to a perfect trial. He is, however, still entitled to a fair one,” the brief reads. “Danny Masterson received neither. Reversal is required.” 

During the trial, one of the women Masterson was later convicted of raping broke down on the witness stand as she testified that he choked her and smothered her with a pillow when she tried fighting back as he assaulted her, according to the Associated Press. 

“I could not breathe,” she said, crying. 

When the prosecutor asked what she was thinking at the time, she said she feared for her life, AP reported.

“That he was going to kill me,” she said. “That I was going to die.”  

She later testified Masterson took out a gun from inside his bedside table and told her to be quiet when they heard voices at the door. She told jurors she was in and out of consciousness through the night.

Masterson and the victims were members of the Church of Scientology, which became a central focus of the case as the women alleged they were stalked and harassed after reporting the allegations to police. 

They sued Masterson and the church years earlier in connection with those accusations.

During the trial, Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller told jurors the church had retaliated against the victims for reporting the the crimes — the rape of a 28-year-old woman in April 2003 and assault of a 23-year-old woman, also that year.

“What happened after they were drugged, they were raped by this man over here,” Mueller said, as he pointed across the courtroom toward Masterson during closing arguments. “You have an opportunity to show there is justice. It does exist.”

The church released a statement at the time refuting the allegations.

“The church has no policy prohibiting or discouraging members from reporting criminal conduct of anyone, Scientologists or not, to law enforcement,” the statement reads. “Quite the opposite, church policy explicitly demands Scientologists abide by all laws of the land. All allegations to the contrary are totally false.”

In the newly filed brief for Masterson’s appeal, Gardner alleges the victims changed their stories “dramatically” over the years and had a financial motive to do so. Gardner argues in court documents that though the statute of limitations to file a lawsuit seeking damages had expired before the trial, under state law it would be revived if Masterson was convicted of forcible rape involving multiple victims. 

Gardner says in the brief that a court ruling prevented evidence related to that argument from being admitted at trial.

He also states in the court filings that some witnesses died before the case went to trial, more than a decade after being reported to law enforcement, and alleges that police lost a tape-recorded witness interview that would have helped Masterson’s defense.

After the six-day trial resulting in Masterson’s convictions, one of the women he was convicted of raping released a statement saying she was relieved he had been found guilty.

“I am experiencing a complex array of emotions – relief, exhaustion, strength, sadness – knowing that my abuser, Danny Masterson, will face accountability for his criminal behavior,” said a statement from one of the women whom Masterson was convicted of raping at his home in 2003.



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The Emmy Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET.  “Sunday Morning” also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.) 


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A performance of Handel’s “Messiah” at New York’s Trinity Church, where the work has been performed since 1770.

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COVER STORY: The story of Handel’s “Messiah”
Since its premiere in 1742, George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah,” a 3.5-hour work for chorus, soloists and orchestra that includes the “Hallelujah Chorus,” has become one of the most-heard pieces of classical music on Earth. Correspondent David Pogue looks back on the creation of this masterwork with author Charles King and conductor-musicologist Jane Glover, and examines how Biblical passages assembled by a wealthy English landowner suffering from doom and despair would, in the hands of the German-British opera composer, become a timeless message of hope, and a Christmas tradition.

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ARTS: In Asheville, N.C., gingerbread houses reflect community spirit
For more than three decades, Asheville, North Carolina, has hosted the National Gingerbread Contest, a celebration of Christmas, creativity and carbohydrates. The flooding brought by Hurricane Helene this past fall cancelled the contest, but what had been a destination event for bakers and spectators has become an ad hoc celebration of Asheville. Forty-one gingerbread creations have been placed around town to help bring holiday cheer (as well as attract donations and tourist dollars) to the struggling city. Correspondent Conor Knight reports.

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MOVIES: Werner Herzog keeps working, predicts: “You have to carry me out from a set feet first”
Visionary director Werner Herzog has made more than 20 feature films and more than 30 documentaries. But it wasn’t movies that prompted the German-born filmmaker to move to Los Angeles; it was love. He talks with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz about his recent memoir, “Every Man for Himself and God Against All”; about the epic making of his 1982 classic, “Fitzcarraldo”; and why he enjoys acting – when he gets to play the villain.

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HEADLINES: Why drone hysteria has taken off
By most accounts, alleged drone sightings have been multiplying exponentially, with more than 5,000 reported in just the past few weeks. But experts say the majority of reports about unusual lights in the sky are probably anything but drones. Correspondent Tom Hanson reports.

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PASSAGE: In memoriam
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WORLD: West Bank settlements, and the expanding divide of Israelis and Palestinians
Inside the occupied West Bank, the Israeli settlement of Karnei Shomron is one of more than a hundred carved into Palestinian land. Today, upwards of 700,000 Israelis live in communities scattered inside the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which the United Nations calls illegal. About 15% of settlers are Americans. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with two settlers, originally from West Virginia and Detroit, and with Palestinians in the West Bank now living on the other side of an Israeli security barrier.

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COMMENTARY: Bob Dylan’s enduring love affair with the movies
The iconic Bob Dylan has long been a silver screen presence – as an actor, a subject of documentaries, and as portrayed by Hollywood heavyweights, from Christian Bale to Timothée Chalamet (star of the new biopic “A Complete Unknown”). But as historian Douglas Brinkley points out, Dylan’s love of movies has been a recurring theme in his art, and his persona, all his life.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Darren Criss
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MUSIC: A Darren Criss performance
       

COMMENTARY: Reflections on the messages of Christmas and Hanukkah
Wednesday will mark both Christmas Day and the first night of Hanukkah. Mariann Budde, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C., and author and rabbi Steve Leder, of Los Angeles, offer their thoughts on what the holiday season means to us all.

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