An appellate court upheld a ruling that convicted rapist Andrew Luster has no right to appeal his guilty verdicts because he jumped bail and fled to Mexico during a break in his trial.
"By his flight to a foreign country, the inference is compelling that, but for his capture, he would be a fugitive to this day," Justice Kenneth Yegan wrote for the 2nd District Court of Appeals in its ruling Wednesday.
Luster, a great-grandson of cosmetics legend Max Factor, was convicted in absentia in January of drugging and raping women in his Ventura County home.
Hmmm . . . . Granted, the guy fled during his trial. But then he is convicted in abstentia, and now he has no right to appeal the conviction???
Apparently when your behavior waives your due process rights, you waive your rights to due process.