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	Pretrial Hearing May 30th - to Compel Roger Mahony to Respond in LA Civil Cases against Roman Catholic Church City of Angels [Los Angeles] May 25, 2007 http://cityofangels3.blogspot.com/ Wednesday May 30 is a hearing to get Cardinal Roger Mahony to respond to interrogatories at LA Superior Court Dept 20 8:31 AM. On May 16th counsel for the church and plaintiffs met in the Jury Room on orders from the judge to meet and confer on this motion now continued to the hearing Wednesday. The "Motion-Compel Further Responses (by Defendant Doe 1) to Standardized Interrogatories 1-8" regards case BC307225, and predator priest Lynn Caffoe. Some background: The archbishop's responses are "evasive or incomplete" writes Katherine Freberg in the Motion to Compel filed April 14th. Interrogatories 1 through 8 ask about archdiocese employees accused of sex crimes. Mahony needs to respond writes Freberg, "to see archbishop's response to complaints about Father Caffoe" and whether he "failed to take steps to implement reasonable safeguards." Answers to these interrogatories will reveal if it's true as Mahony has said that "the known incidents of abuse were few in number and generally perceived not to be indicative of a pattern." Direct quote from the motion: "The Archbishop so far has been unwilling to verify the truthfulness of his responses in a verification signed under penalty of perjury, nor has he been willing to provide complete answers to interrogatories." Date of this hearing May 30, trial date August 7th.
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