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''United States v. Hubbard'' was a 1978 criminal court case charging
''United States v. Hubbard'' was a 1978 criminal court case charging Mary Sue Hubbard
Mary Sue Hubbard (née Whipp; June 17, 1931 – November 25, 2002Profile
marysuehubbard.com; accessed A ...
and several other members of the Church of Scientology with violations of various laws including:
U.S.C. 18 §§ (Aiding and Abetting), (Conspiracy), (Theft of Govt Property), (Obstruction of Justice), (False Declarations before a Grand Jury), and (Interception of Oral Communication). Also included was 22 D.C. Code §§ 105, 1801(b) (Burglary, Aiding and Abetting).Grand jury document filed in the marysuehubbard.com; accessed A ...
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a federal district court in the District of Columbia. It also occasionally handles (jointly with the United States District Court for the District ...
, filed in open court, August 15, 1968. Available at http://lisatrust.freewinds.be/legal/snowwhite/docs.htm
All eleven defendants were found guilty and sentenced to both fines and imprisonment. The convictions were upheld on appeal.
Defendants
List from Grand Jury document. *Mary Sue Hubbard *Jane Kember *Morris Budlong *Henning Heldt *Duke Snider *Gregory Willardson *Richard Weigand *Mitchell Hermann aka Mike Cooper *Cindy Raymond *Gerald Bennett Wolfe *Sharon ThomasResult
A series of sentencing orders dated Dec 11 1979 show some of the results of the trial.Data in this table is from scans of Commitment Orders, Dec 16 1980.See also
*Operation Snow White
Operation Snow White was a criminal conspiracy by the Church of Scientology during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. This project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 ...
* Operation Freakout
*List of Guardian's Office operations
From its establishment in 1966 to its demise in the early 1980s, the Guardian's Office (GO) of the Church of Scientology carried out numerous covert operations and programs against a range of perceived opponents of Scientology in the United States ...
*Scientology and the legal system
The Church of Scientology has been involved in court disputes in several countries. In some cases, when the Church has initiated the dispute, questions have been raised as to its motives. The Church of Scientology says that its use of the legal sy ...
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External links
* * * 1980 Sentencing memorandum for Jane Kember and Morris Budlong from wikisource Scientology-related controversies United States District Court for the District of Columbia cases 1978 in United States case law Scientology litigation 1978 in religion United States District Court case articles without infoboxes {{scientology-stub