 In court, the two confessions were withdrawn with the members claiming duress.Despite over 98 witness testimonies and the Crown presenting over 500 pages of seized documents as evidence, on August 7, 1962 Magistrate Evans dismissed the Crown's case on the basis that there was insufficient evidence to proceed to trial.Meanwhile, 104 members of the sect, including children, continued to be detained on remand at Mountain Institution in Agassiz, British Columbia.