Paul Morantz, the cult-fighting attorney and outspoken antagonist of Synanon, died in Santa Monica on Oct. 23. He was 77 years old. Mr. Morantz put himself in harm’s way to defend victims of the drug rehab program that ultimately morphed into a Marshall-based, self-styled religion with violent ten

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