NEW JURY TO KEEP ON TOMORROW: Danny Masterson Trial, Day 25, end of day report

After the lunch break.

While we wait and wait for the jury, we do have a little excitement.

The tall, good looking attorney who was attending from day one, and that we have suspected has been watching the trial for Scientology, has finally been identified by one of the journalists.

He is Dillon Kellerman with Winston & Strawn, the same law firm that employs William Forman, Scientology attorney.

We note that it's an odd coincidence that he shares the same unusual spelling of his name with Dillon Malar, another attorney associated with Scientology, who has also been attending the trial.

Dillon Malar is the young colleague of Vicki Podberesky, and we noticed Malar in the courtroom this morning.

Kellerman has not been here today.

When trial started on October 11, Kellerman made sure he was here early enough to grab the single public seat that was available during the initial days of jury selection. And then he attended nearly every day since then.

When he was asked by a journalist if he was attending on behalf of Scientology, he refused to answer.

Weeks later, Jeffrey Augustine noticed on Kellerman's phone that he was receiving a call from Podberesky.

And now, he's been positively ID'd. He appears to be out of Winston & Strawn's San Francisco office.

Well, we had no doubt that Scientology was intensely interested in the case, despite denials from spokeswoman Karin Pouw that the church was involved.

Kellerman was the mystery man that writer Noah Goldberg speculated was with Scientology for a Los Angeles Times piece, noting the man's tattoos and saying that when Jane Doe 3 had her panic attack, the attorney had written "childish" in his notes.

No doubt Scientology appreciated Kellerman's point of view on the proceedings.

All right, and one other item for us as we wait.

We had heard from people who were in the hallway at the time on Friday that the Masterson group was expressing some displeasure that Judge Olmedo had given breakfast burritos to the journalists waiting in the courtroom, and that they were even discussing whether they could do something about it.

This afternoon, we heard from a journalist who was in the hallway at the time that it was specifically Chris Wadhams, the tall Masterson family friend who gave his kidney to Bijou Phillips, who was talking angrily about Judge Olmedo's breakfast burritos.

And, the journalist tells us, Wadhams was specifically angry about Olmedo giving breakfast burritos to the "anti-Scientology blogger." And that there was no doubt who he was referring to.

Well, what can we say. We had an avocado breakfast burrito, and we thoroughly enjoyed it.

As far as the Masterson clan trying to make something of Judge Olmedo being friendly to journalists keeping a vigil in her courtroom, we would certainly like to see them try. Knowing Judge Olmedo, it would be very entertaining.

And there’s the 4 pm buzz from the jury. They’re done for the day. We’ll be back in the morning!

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