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TONY ORTEGA
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Nine days after the Second Appellate District court in Los Angeles accepted an ‘amicus’ brief from the Church of Scientology that is advocating for actor Danny Masterson in his upcoming appeal hearing, the court has rejected an attempt to pile on from a group of 14 other religious organizations that claim they are upset about the way Scientology was treated in Masterson’s trial.
Both Scientology and the 14 other groups had submitted amicus briefs to the court in December and both were denied. But after cutting its brief down, Scientology resubmitted its amicus on June 1 and it was accepted.
Seemingly bolstered by that result, the 14 religious groups then re-submitted their amicus on Thursday last week, but once again the court has refused to accept it. And again, without explanation.
“That really is hilarious, and I really want to know why,” says appellate attorney TX Lawyer.
Masterson was convicted of two counts of forcible rape on May 31, 2023, and he’s currently serving 30 years to life in state prison at the Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo County. He’s appealing his conviction with the help of nationally-known appellate attorney Cliff Gardner, and the appeal is fully briefed. The oral arguments hearing is scheduled for June 25 in LA, and the hearing will be streamed live online.
Gardner, in his briefing, complains about trial Judge Charlaine Olmedo allowing more testimony about Scientology in the second trial than in the first, which took place in 2022 and resulted in a hung jury.
But the Scientology content of the trial is only one of several arguments that Gardner is making in the appeal. He’s also complaining about the testimony of the Jane Doe victims, the rulings that Olmedo made about which evidence to allow, and also about how the prosecutors packaged the case under California’s “One Strike Law.”
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[/td]Both Scientology and the 14 other groups had submitted amicus briefs to the court in December and both were denied. But after cutting its brief down, Scientology resubmitted its amicus on June 1 and it was accepted.
Seemingly bolstered by that result, the 14 religious groups then re-submitted their amicus on Thursday last week, but once again the court has refused to accept it. And again, without explanation.
“That really is hilarious, and I really want to know why,” says appellate attorney TX Lawyer.
Masterson was convicted of two counts of forcible rape on May 31, 2023, and he’s currently serving 30 years to life in state prison at the Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo County. He’s appealing his conviction with the help of nationally-known appellate attorney Cliff Gardner, and the appeal is fully briefed. The oral arguments hearing is scheduled for June 25 in LA, and the hearing will be streamed live online.
Gardner, in his briefing, complains about trial Judge Charlaine Olmedo allowing more testimony about Scientology in the second trial than in the first, which took place in 2022 and resulted in a hung jury.
But the Scientology content of the trial is only one of several arguments that Gardner is making in the appeal. He’s also complaining about the testimony of the Jane Doe victims, the rulings that Olmedo made about which evidence to allow, and also about how the prosecutors packaged the case under California’s “One Strike Law.”
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Court rejects 'amicus' from Scientology's religious pals in Danny Masterson appeal
Nine days after the Second Appellate District court in Los Angeles accepted an ‘amicus’ brief from the Church of Scientology that is advocating for actor Danny Masterson in his upcoming appeal hearing, the court has rejected an attempt to pile on from a group of 14 other religious organizations...
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