{"id":503735,"date":"2026-10-22T04:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503735\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T04:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:06:22","slug":"matthew-werner-released-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503735\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Werner released from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Earlier this month, we aired a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/story\/matthew-werners-case-3-accusers-sobering-lessons\/19910712\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three-part investigation we called &#8220;Defiance.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It was an in-depth look at a sexual assault case that played out in court for nearly a decade, laying bare issues with our justice system when it comes to rape allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">That investigation focused on Matthew Leonard Werner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Wednesday morning, we learned that Werner was released from a California state prison Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In 2023, he pled no contest to one felony count of assault likely to cause great bodily injury and one misdemeanor count of sexual battery for an attack on a woman, Shira Scott Astroff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">That attack occurred eight years earlier in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Werner received a suspended sentence and initially served no time in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">But the LAPD gathered evidence to show Werner was violating his probation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This past February, an L.A. County judge then ordered Werner to serve his full sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Department of Corrections tells us Werner received 972 days of credit for time served and was eligible for other credit earning opportunities, so he was released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The LAPD tells us they are still investigating Werner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They say anyone with relevant information can call Los Angeles police at 213-473-0447.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Earlier this month, we aired a three-part investigation we called &#8220;Defiance.&#8221; It was an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[194876,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-503735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-194876","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}