Dec 18, 2022 • 1HR 2M

PODCAST: If Scientology expert Claire Headley had testified at the Danny Masterson trial

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Tony Ortega has been investigating and writing about the Church of Scientology since 1995, and daily since 2012 at The Underground Bunker. The Underground Bunker podcast allows him to discuss that news with important sources who know David Miscavige's cabal better than anyone.
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We're still going through the wreckage of the Danny Masterson Trial, which ended with a hung jury on November 30. And one thing that surprised us about the interview we did with Chris Shelton of the jury foreman, was the revelation that the jury had largely ignored the Scientology component of the case.

And it reminded us that Judge Charlaine Olmedo had not allowed the prosecution to bring in a Scientology expert, former Sea Org official Claire Headley, to explain Scientology's policies to the jury. Would that have made a difference?

We decided to ask Claire herself about the trial and what she might have brought to it if she'd been allowed to testify.

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