Ex-Scientologist's 'brouhaha' with priest leads to jury restrictions in Danny Masterson's retrial
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Attorneys also are being allowed to question witnesses about members of the public gallery amid claims that a Church of Scientology lawyer was staring down a witness.
The priest did not sit in the defendant's section. And even before this one-sided noisy conversation occurred in the hallway, the priest had caused a brief interruption in the courtroom, answering the judge that he had no affiliation with Scientology, but was only concerned that religious rights be upheld.
During the lunch break, he then told the ex-Scientologist that he had been invited by Scientology and was attending the trial together with a Scientology blogger.
The priest did not sit in the defendant's section. And even before this one-sided noisy conversation occurred in the hallway, the priest had caused a brief interruption in the courtroom, answering the judge that he had no affiliation with Scientology, but was only concerned that religious rights be upheld.
During the lunch break, he then told the ex-Scientologist that he had been invited by Scientology and was attending the trial together with a Scientology blogger.