{"id":107784,"date":"2023-06-09T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/09\/danny-masterson-trial-judge-finds-lawyers-leaked-info-to-church-of-scientology-national\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T20:51:00","slug":"danny-masterson-trial-judge-finds-attorneys-leaked-information-to-church-of-scientology-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/09\/danny-masterson-trial-judge-finds-attorneys-leaked-information-to-church-of-scientology-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Masterson trial: Judge finds attorneys leaked information to Church of Scientology – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two attorneys previously representing That \u201970\u2019s Show<\/em> actor and convicted rapist Danny Masterson<\/a> have been financially sanctioned by a Los Angeles County Superior Court decide on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Judge Charlaine Olmedo dominated Masterson\u2019s ex-defence attorneys, Tom Mesereau and Sharon Appelbaum, leaked<\/a> delicate trial info to the Church of Scientology<\/a> in regards to the girls who accused Masterson of rape.<\/p>\n

Masterson, 47, is a training Scientologist. Last week, a Los Angeles jury discovered the actor responsible of rape<\/a> after practically two weeks of deliberation.<\/p>\n

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The three girls who accused Masterson of sexually assaulting them have for a few years claimed the church has stalked and harassed them since they defected from Scientology.<\/p>\n

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The confidential discovery materials from Masterson\u2019s rape trial was despatched to a different Church of Scientology lawyer, Vicki Podberesky, and it contained police reviews from the victims and their private info, together with residence addresses and banking particulars.<\/p>\n

The leak to Podberesky was uncovered throughout Masterson\u2019s retrial final month, when Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller mentioned he obtained an e mail from Podberesky \u2014 who was not affiliated with the trial \u2014 that included an attachment of 570 pages of discovery materials. It is unclear if the attachment was despatched by chance.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s extremely troubling that all of our redacted discovery we turned over to the defence is now in the hands of Scientology,\u201d Mueller informed the decide throughout Masterson\u2019s retrial.<\/p>\n

Podberesky tried to say prosecutors have been soliciting false testimony from victims so as to wrongfully convict Masterson of rape. Judge Olmedo mentioned the allegation was \u201cdemonstrably false.\u201d<\/p>\n

Podberesky is main the Church of Scientology\u2019s defence for a separate civil lawsuit filed by the identical girls who accused Masterson of rape; the victims claimed Scientology officers threatened them for years after they reported Masterson\u2019s abuse to police.<\/p>\n

The Church of Scientology has denied all accusations of wrongdoing, and was not a celebration in Masterson\u2019s trial. Podberesky informed the Los Angeles Times she legally obtained the confidential trial paperwork however didn’t say how.<\/p>\n