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Judge Olmedo’s ruling about the Scientology leak: The whole enchilada

[Judge Charlaine Olmedo and Scientology attorney Vicki Podberesky]

We can tell you that Thomas Mesereau’s attorney Edith Matthai was not very happy when she saw that Judge Charlaine Olmedo had a 30-page ruling ready to issue after yesterday’s evidentiary hearing about the leak of prosecution discovery material to the Church of []

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Scientology leak hearing: Who’s falling on their sword today?

[Defense attorneys Philip Cohen, Sharon Appelbaum, and Tom Mesereau]

A week ago this morning, we were still waiting for the Danny Masterson retrial jury to finish its deliberations, and Judge Charlaine Olmedo’s courtroom had attracted an interesting collection of Masterson’s defense attorneys, past and []

Here’s the court order demanding Danny Masterson’s attorneys attend leak hearing

[Defense attorneys Philip Cohen, Shawn Holley, and Tom Mesereau]

Naturally, the events that transpired on Wednesday afternoon in Judge Charlaine Olmedo’s courtroom have captured the world’s attention, as Danny Masterson was convicted and remanded to []

What it was like watching Danny Masterson get handcuffed in Judge Olmedo’s court

 Hey, gang. That was quite a day yesterday for your proprietor, and we have to admit we’re still just sort of recovering from []

Straight Up and Vertical: When is this jury going to deliver a result?

 After a morning off, deliberations in the Danny Masterson retrial will resume today at 1:30 pm here in Los Angeles. The jury will then have only a little more than two hours to reach a verdict today before the court takes tomorrow off []

Scientology salutes ‘humanitarian’ couple for donating $33.8 million to building fund

 Just last week we showed you evidence from Scientology’s own publications that big donors are still turning over huge amounts to church leader David Miscavige’s legal slush fund, the International Association of []

As the jury deliberates, there’s plenty it didn’t hear about Danny Masterson

[Daily Beast illustration]

During the first Danny Masterson trial, Leah Remini joined us on the Underground Bunker podcast for a really terrific look at the case. And one of the things we talked about was how frustrated we were that the jury was not seeing some of the evidence we knew existed about []

Verdict watch: Will defense attorney Philip Cohen’s sartorial splendor be a factor?

Yesterday, our daily sartorial splendor alert indicated that defense attorney Philip Cohen had stepped up his game at the Danny Masterson []

After final rebuttal from prosecution this morning, the jury gets the case

[Defense attorney Philip Cohen, DDAs Reinhold Mueller and Ariel Anson, and Danny Masterson. Photos by @MeghannCuniff]

We’re still marveling this morning at the display put on yesterday by Deputy DA Ariel Anson as she began the government’s closing at the Danny Masterson retrial in Los []

Closing arguments today at the Danny Masterson retrial: We’re ready for fireworks

[Is it going to be a split-squad performance by Anson and Mueller today?]

Judge Charlaine Olmedo gave both sides in the Danny Masterson retrial the day off yesterday to prepare their closing arguments as this proceeding has sped to a conclusion more quickly than the first trial last []