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TONY ORTEGA
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[California inmate BW7253]
Last December, the Church of Scientology finally made it clear that it still backed its imprisoned celebrity Danny Masterson by filing a 17,000-word “amicus” brief aimed at swaying the California court considering his appeal.
The court declined to accept Scientology’s amicus, but after the church cut some of its length and resubmitted it in June, the court this time allowed it.
We don’t know if that means the court will be influenced by Scientology’s argument that Masterson’s religious rights were infringed by a court hostile to his religion. But to be on the safe side, California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office submitted a response on July 13, arguing that Scientology was off-base in its amicus.
Now, Danny Masterson himself gets the last word. Late Friday, his attorney Cliff Gardner submitted a 26-page reply, saying that Scientology was correct and the AG’s response ignored key differences between Masterson’s two trials, the second of which resulted in his conviction and a sentence of 30-years-to-life in prison.
With Masterson’s reply, the appeal is now fully submitted, and the Second Appellate District has 90 days to issue its ruling. So by late October, we’ll find out whether these arguments about Scientology in Masterson’s trials made a difference in the outcome of his appeal.
Here’s Masterson’s full reply, as submitted by his attorneys. We’ll have our own expert TX Lawyer’s analysis of it tomorrow.
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[/td]Last December, the Church of Scientology finally made it clear that it still backed its imprisoned celebrity Danny Masterson by filing a 17,000-word “amicus” brief aimed at swaying the California court considering his appeal.
The court declined to accept Scientology’s amicus, but after the church cut some of its length and resubmitted it in June, the court this time allowed it.
We don’t know if that means the court will be influenced by Scientology’s argument that Masterson’s religious rights were infringed by a court hostile to his religion. But to be on the safe side, California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office submitted a response on July 13, arguing that Scientology was off-base in its amicus.
Now, Danny Masterson himself gets the last word. Late Friday, his attorney Cliff Gardner submitted a 26-page reply, saying that Scientology was correct and the AG’s response ignored key differences between Masterson’s two trials, the second of which resulted in his conviction and a sentence of 30-years-to-life in prison.
With Masterson’s reply, the appeal is now fully submitted, and the Second Appellate District has 90 days to issue its ruling. So by late October, we’ll find out whether these arguments about Scientology in Masterson’s trials made a difference in the outcome of his appeal.
Here’s Masterson’s full reply, as submitted by his attorneys. We’ll have our own expert TX Lawyer’s analysis of it tomorrow.
READ MORE
Danny Masterson says his Scientology religious rights were violated at trial, argues for release
Last December, the Church of Scientology finally made it clear that it still backed its imprisoned celebrity Danny Masterson by filing a 17,000-word “amicus” brief aimed at swaying the California court considering his appeal.
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