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TONY ORTEGA
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We couldn’t wait to see what our appellate attorney expert, TX Lawyer, had to say about the California attorney general’s response to Scientology’s “amicus” brief, which the church submitted in an attempt to get Danny Masterson sprung from prison. Here’s his assessment…
This reads like I wrote it myself. I doubt the state read my takes on the Scientology amicus briefs (both rejected and accepted), but they are definitely picking up on the same issues and hypocrisies I flagged. I love that the response calls out Scientology for prioritizing its own interests over those of the member whose rights the Church is supposedly standing up for. And the irreconcilable tension between “Only we can talk about Scientology in a courtroom” and “Scientology is totally out of bounds in a courtroom” is just exquisite here.
I will also compliment the writer(s) for noting something that I don’t think I have quite articulated: The Church’s (and Team Danny’s) insistence that the accusers are motivated by alleged anti-Scientology bias actually makes the Scientology evidence more probative, not off-limits. That’s kind of the same thing that I have pointed out about Team Danny making it relevant by attacking the victims for their delays in reporting to the police, but here the blame for the strategy gets properly laid at the feet of Scientology.
It is pretty hilarious that the response brief gets to go into so much detail about the pretrial hearing cockup over the “Scientology Ethics Book.” The whole incident is pretty indicative of what Scientology wants to be able to do in court. It wants to be the sole authority on what Scientology is, without being subject to any rebuttal. It’s so unfair that Jane Doe 3 was allowed to point out all the parts of the book that support her understanding of the doctrines, practices, and consequences! How dare anyone (via Vicki Podberesky, Tom Mesereau, and whichever mysterious person who calls the shots in Scientology) raise the issue in the first place!
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Excerpt:
We couldn’t wait to see what our appellate attorney expert, TX Lawyer, had to say about the California attorney general’s response to Scientology’s “amicus” brief, which the church submitted in an attempt to get Danny Masterson sprung from prison. Here’s his assessment…
This reads like I wrote it myself. I doubt the state read my takes on the Scientology amicus briefs (both rejected and accepted), but they are definitely picking up on the same issues and hypocrisies I flagged. I love that the response calls out Scientology for prioritizing its own interests over those of the member whose rights the Church is supposedly standing up for. And the irreconcilable tension between “Only we can talk about Scientology in a courtroom” and “Scientology is totally out of bounds in a courtroom” is just exquisite here.
I will also compliment the writer(s) for noting something that I don’t think I have quite articulated: The Church’s (and Team Danny’s) insistence that the accusers are motivated by alleged anti-Scientology bias actually makes the Scientology evidence more probative, not off-limits. That’s kind of the same thing that I have pointed out about Team Danny making it relevant by attacking the victims for their delays in reporting to the police, but here the blame for the strategy gets properly laid at the feet of Scientology.
It is pretty hilarious that the response brief gets to go into so much detail about the pretrial hearing cockup over the “Scientology Ethics Book.” The whole incident is pretty indicative of what Scientology wants to be able to do in court. It wants to be the sole authority on what Scientology is, without being subject to any rebuttal. It’s so unfair that Jane Doe 3 was allowed to point out all the parts of the book that support her understanding of the doctrines, practices, and consequences! How dare anyone (via Vicki Podberesky, Tom Mesereau, and whichever mysterious person who calls the shots in Scientology) raise the issue in the first place!
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Our legal expert looks at the state's response to Scientology's amicus for Danny Masterson
We couldn’t wait to see what our appellate attorney expert, TX Lawyer, had to say about the California attorney general’s response to Scientology’s “amicus” brief, which the church submitted in an attempt to get Danny Masterson sprung from prison.
tonyortega.substack.com
