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Scientology's war against judges

Title: Scientology's war against judges
Date: Monday, 1 December 1980
Publisher: The American Lawyer
Author: James B. Stewart
Main source: gerryarmstrong.org

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On September 5, 1980, as U.S. District Court Judge Charles Richey was recuperating from two pulmonary embolisms and exhaustion, lawyers for the Church of Scientology and the Justice Department gathered before Judge Aubrey Robinson, Richey's successor in the two-year-old conspiracy case against 11 members of the Church of Scientology. Judge Richey had already convicted and sentenced nine of the original 11 defendants, but the remaining two, recently extradited from England, were about to go on trial. "Particularly from the standpoint of ... [Read the rest at gerryarmstrong.org]