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Oct 22, 2009
Travolta hoped end of trial would bring closure / Actor upset over mistrial, wanted to begin healing process, attorney says — People magazine
Oct 16, 2009
Witness testifies in Bridgewater trial — Nassau Guardian (Bahamas)
Type: Press
Author(s): Juan McCartney
Source: Nassau Guardian (Bahamas)
By JUAN McCARTNEY ~ Guardian Senior Reporter ~ juan@nasguard.com: The defense in the trial of former Senator Pleasant Bridgewater and ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne rested its case yesterday, after its only witness finished his testimony. Final arguments in the case will be delivered on Monday. And Senior Justice Anita Allen is expected sum up the case and give instructions to the jury on Tuesday. Bridgewater and Lightbourne are accused of attempting to extort $25 million from American actor John Travolta after ...
Oct 14, 2009
Legal submissions delay Bridgewater trial — Nassau Guardian (Bahamas)
Type: Press
Author(s): Juan McCartney
Source: Nassau Guardian (Bahamas)
By JUAN McCARTNEY ~ Guardian Senior Reporter ~ juan@nasguard.com: Proceedings in the attempted extortion trial of former Senator Pleasant Bridgewater and ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne experienced another delay yesterday as Senior Justice Anita Allen heard legal submissions from attorneys in the matter. The Nassau Guardian understands that defense attorneys Murrio Ducille and Carlson Shurland have been presenting 'no case to answer' submissions to Justice Allen since Thursday. It is also understood that Ducille, who represents Bridgewater, completed his submissions last week. ...
Oct 8, 2009
Cross-examination overheats in Bridgewater trial again — Nassau Guardian (Bahamas)
Type: Press
Author(s): Juan McCartney
Source: Nassau Guardian (Bahamas)
By JUAN MCCARTNEY ~ Guardian Senior Reporter ~ juan@nasguard.com: A firestorm erupted in the trial of former Senator Pleasant Bridgewater and ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne yesterday, as Lightbourne's attorney Carlson Shurland cross-examined an attorney for American actor John Travolta. As Shurland shot a barrage of questions at Michael McDermott, things reached a fever pitch in the courtroom as the two men traded barbs and made commentary during the cross-examination in direct contravention of repeated warnings by Senior Justice Anita Allen. It ...
Sep 25, 2009
Explosive evidence from the Travolta extortion trial — People magazine
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Type: Press
Author(s): Siobhan Morrissey
Source: People magazine
Lawyer for actor seen negotiating with two defendants in Bahamas trial Is it the smoking gun? The trial of two defendants accused of trying to extort $25 million from John Travolta in return for handing over a document relating to the death of the star's 16-year-old son, Jett, continued in the Bahamas Friday. Meanwhile, PEOPLE has watched videotape of conversations recorded by the Royal Bahamas Police between Travolta's attorney and the two defendants — paramedic Tarino Lightbourn and his lawyer, Pleasant ...
Sep 23, 2009
Travolta recounts son’s death at Bahamas trial — Associated Press
Sep 21, 2009
Jury selected for Travolta extortion trial — Associated Press
Type: Press
Author(s): Juan McCartney
Source: Associated Press
NASSAU, Bahamas – A jury was selected Monday for a trial that could see John Travolta take the stand against two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from the movie star following his son's death in the Bahamas. Travolta is on a list of 14 witnesses against the defendants — a former Bahamas senator and an ambulance driver — who allegedly threatened to release a document related to the treatment of his chronically ill son Jett. His testimony would ...
Sep 19, 2009
John Travolta will testify at extortion trial — TMZ
Type: Press
Source: TMZ
TMZ has confirmed John Travolta will testify next week at the extortion trial involving the death of his son, Jett. Travolta will travel to the Bahamas to testify on behalf of the prosecution. Paramedic Tarino Lightbourne and former politician Pleasant Bridgewater allegedly demanded $25 million in return for not going public with a document which authorized paramedics to take 16-year-old Jett to a hospital via ambulance after suffering a massive seizure. We're told Travolta and wife Kelly Preston are outraged by ...
Jun 29, 2009
Infinite Complacency: The Paris Trial // Purification Rundown: defendants
Type: Book
Author(s): Jonny Jacobsen
Day 4 (June 2): The court trying six Scientologists and two Scientology associations heard from one of the defendants responsible for managing the Paris centre’s Purification Rundown. [...]
Jun 29, 2009
Infinite Complacency: The Paris Trial // Rosenberg's testimony I
Jun 11, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial: The Purification Rundown
Type: Press
Author(s): Jonny Jacobsen
Day 4 (June 2): an expert witness dismissed Scientology’s Purification Rundown as quackery as the Paris trial considered the high doses of vitamins used in the programme. [...]
Jun 9, 2009
Latest news from the French Scientology trial — DigitalJournal.com
Type: Commentary
Author(s): Michael Cosgrove
Source: DigitalJournal.com
The Church of Scientology is on trial in Paris for organised fraud. Six individuals and two organisations have been charged and if they are found guilty the Church may well have to wind up some or all of its activities in France. This trial had been talked about for months here as being a make-or-break affair for Scientology and it began last Monday. The two organisations being tried are the Spiritual Association of the Church of Scientology and the Scientology library, ...
Jun 7, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial: Pierre Auffret's Story
Jun 5, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial: The Psychiatrist's Testimony
Type: Book
Author(s): Jonny Jacobsen
(Day 3: May 27) Scientology’s techniques abuse the transference process familiar to all therapists, a psychiatrist told the Paris trial of the movement and six of its members. [...]
Jun 4, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial: The Second Plaintiff
Type: Book
Author(s): Jonny Jacobsen
Day 3 (May 27): the second plaintiff in the Paris trial of Scientology told the court how her employer put her under ever-increasing pressure to take the movement’s courses. [...]
Jun 2, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial III
May 31, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial II
May 29, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial I
May 28, 2009
Scientology on trial in France: Can a religion be banned? — TIME Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s): Bruce Crumley
Source: TIME Magazine
As a fiercely secular nation, France has always had an awkward relationship with religious groups. Officials often find themselves struggling to strike the delicate balance between maintaining church-state separation and honoring the right of citizens to express their faith. But in the current case against the U.S.-based Church of Scientology, authorities have abandoned their usual attempts at fine-tuning religion's standing in French society — instead, they want to ban Scientology from France altogether. In a long-awaited trial that opened this week, ...
May 26, 2009
Scientology on trial in Paris for 'ruin' of disciples — Daily Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Henry Samuel
Source: Daily Telegraph (UK)
The Church of Scientology has been accused of manipulating followers into handing over their savings, in a trial that could see the church banned from France. The church's main centre in France, the ASES-Celebrity Centre, its bookshop and six of its leaders were charged on Monday with organised fraud and illegally prescribing drugs. One former church member claimed she had been psychologically pressured into paying thousands of pounds for lessons, books, drugs and a device called an "electrometre", which the church ...
May 26, 2009
Tom Cruise and a trial that could drive Scientology out of France — The Independent (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): John Lichfield
Source: The Independent (UK)
Movement accused of 'organised fraud' against two female members persuaded to part with €20,000 The Scientology movement went on trial in Paris yesterday for "organised fraud" in a case which could lead to the cult's organising bodies being outlawed in France. The French state prosecution service has failed to back the trial but denies that its decision was influenced by the lobbying of French politicians, including Nicolas Sarkozy before he became President, by leading Scientologists, including the actor Tom Cruise. After ...
May 25, 2009
Church of Scientology goes on trial in Paris for fraud — Radio France International (RFI)
Type: Press
Source: Radio France International (RFI)
Members of the Church of Scientology go on trial in Paris Monday on charges of fraud, along with the Church of Scientology itself, which means its operations in France are at risk. The trial is the culmination of two complaints lodged by people who said they were manipulated into spending thousands of euros by the Church. France considers Scientology a cult. Until now, prosecutors have only gone after individual Scientologists in court. But Monday, along with seven Scientologists, the Church itself ...
May 25, 2009
Scientology on trial in France — BBC News
Type: TV
Source: BBC News
The Church of Scientology has gone on trial in the French capital, Paris, accused of organised fraud. The case centres on a complaint by a woman who says she was pressured into paying large sums of money after being offered a free personality test. The church, which is fighting the charges, denies that any mental manipulation took place. France regards Scientology as a sect, not a religion, and the organisation could be banned if it loses the case. It is the ...
May 22, 2009
Scientology trial set to begin — Channel 4 (UK)
Type: TV
Author(s): Emily Reuben
Source: Channel 4 (UK)
Are the secrets of Scientology about to be exposed in a French court? More4 News goes to Paris to find out. It sounds like a science, but calls itself a church, while opponents have other names for it. Despite celebrity followers such as John Travolta, the Church of Scientology is viewed with suspicion in some countries. Now the organisation faces a legal battle in France, with a trial starting next week threatening its operations there.
May 21, 2009
Infinite Complacency - Scientology on trial in France
Jan 31, 2009
Trial date set for fraud case against Church of Scientology in France — Wikinews
Nov 12, 2008
Jury still out on Butcher 'guru to the stars' trial — fishbowl LA
Type: Blog
Author(s): Dan Cox
Source: fishbowl LA
The jury is still out on the Feline Butcher – holistic health guru to such stars as Tom Cruise, Lisa Marie Presley and Queen Latifah – who is facing 17 counts of practicing medicine without a license and one count of grand theft. The jury's verdict could put Butcher's holistic health clinic out of business, but it could also put her behind bars. It would weigh heavily on the Church of Scientology, which is a big supporter of Butcher's anti-drug regimen ...
Sep 9, 2008
Church of Scientology faces fraud trial in France — The Guardian (UK)
Sep 8, 2008
Scientology 'faces French trial' — BBC News
Type: Press
Source: BBC News
The Church of Scientology in France will be tried in court for "organised fraud", according to legal sources. The lawyer for one of the plaintiffs behind the case told the BBC that if convicted the controversial Church could be banned. The Church has faced stiff opposition in France as well as Germany, where it has been declared unconstitutional. The French branch of the Church of Scientology said it had been cleared of "numerous" similar charges. It said such charges should not ...
Sep 8, 2008
Scientology faces French trial for fraud, prescribing drugs: source — Google News
Type: Press
Source: Google News
PARIS (AFP) - The Church of Scientology is to be tried for fraud, and seven of its members for illegally prescribing drugs, legal sources said Monday, in the latest clash between French officials and the controversial religion. The charges stem from a case taken by a woman who said she paid the church more than 20,000 euros (28,000 dollars) for lessons, books, drugs and an "electrometer," a device which the church says can measure a person's mental state. She allegedly made ...
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