(NBC NEWS) A California judge Monday vacated the 124-year prison sentence handed down 10 years ago to the great-grandson and heir of cosmetics mogul Max Factor, whose flight and capture helped catapult Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman to international stardom.
But Andrew Luster, 49, won't get a new trial on charges that he drugged and raped three women after Judge Kathryne Ann Stoltz found that only his sentencing, not his conviction, was improper, NBC Los Angeles reported.
Stoltz, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge, was hired to hear the case in Ventura County Superior Court after Luster argued that he was improperly sentenced in 2003, when he was convicted on 86 counts of giving three women gamma hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, and raping them while they were unconscious.