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	Mahony on witness stand June 11 sparks outbreak of objections More Church Attorney Potts vs Judge transcript in LA cases re predator priests City of Angels [Los Angeles] June 1, 2007 http://cityofangels3.blogspot.com/2007/06/mahony-on-witness-stand-june-11-sparks.html Cardinal Roger Mahony is Number 17 on the Plaintiff's Witness List filed May 25th for the Paul Kreutzer Cases going to jury trial June 11th. Defendants have Kreutzer as Witness Number 4, then 9 through 21 are monsignors and sisters, so just reading Defendants' Witness List can be triggering for a survivor. Mahony's name as a witness caused some of the disarray in LA Superior Court last week, re the hearing that vanished from the May 30th calendar. Right up to the time court went into session plaintiffs still thought the hearing re Interrogatories 1 through 8 was to go forward. It had been "penned" onto the printed sheet of paper that is taped outside the courtroom listing the order of hearings that day. Then Plaintiff Attorney Steven J. Brady of San Francisco subpoenaed the cardinal last week to testify on the witness stand in the Kreutzer Cases trial June 11th. While the Cardinal was wondering how to avoid answering written questions in Interrogatories 1 through 8, which he'd been avoiding since August, the man in robes got served. The Mahony subpoena caused a stream of faxes and arc scar web posts last week as motions to object and statements to support the Mahony subpoena went between attorneys and the courts. As soon as City of Angels can get to Room 106 and read whatever documents are public, you can read a report here. On the calendar taped outside court May 30th someone official had written in ink: #9, Motion to Compel, Bc307225. The motion had gone off calendar then gone back on, then apparently gone back off again and on again. (I know from experience that this piece of paper is sacrosanct to the court. Once at the end of the day I took the sheet down and carried it inside to ask a clerk a question. As soon as I entered all three clerks stopped and stared at me mouths open. Then one said, "You took down my calendar," with total East LA scolding tone. I learned. That sheet of paper taped outside is The Final Calendar For The Record and it's pristine, to be written on by officials of the court only.) So that hearing May 30th re Mahony was still on the calendar May 30th, taken off and put back on at the last minute, and no church attorney showed up for it, as apparently church attorneys knew in advance... .
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