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	Mahony Still Evading Interrogatories 1-8 Church Attorneys Can't Help but Help Plaintiffs, As Slowly the Truth Comes out in Pretrial Hearings City of Angels [Los Angeles, CA] June 14, 2007 http://cityofangels3.blogspot.com/2007/06/mahony-still-evading-interrogatories-1.html The more Church Attorneys have to talk in court, the better things go for plaintiffs, as even in today's slow grind of justice, the truth inevitably comes out. At a June 6 hearing, the judge denied plaintiff's request for a protective order, and in the same case, denied the church's attempt to prevent deposition of a witness, and no matter what defendants argued, the plaintiffs' cases kept shining through. To show how compassionate a man Clinton Hagenbach really is, a Church Attorney told the judge, "A letter was sent to all the members of the parish" about the same time period as the calendar entry about which plaintiffs want to question this witness. The female Church Attorney beside him chimed in, "He (Hagenbach) was upset to be leaving because he had so many dear friends in the families at that parish." Plaintiff liaison Tony DeMarco jumped up and said, "Your Honor that letter is something we'd like to see." Then in yesterday's hearings Church Attorney Sean Kneafsey assured Katherine Freberg in front of the judge: "The bulletins are being copied as we speak." So more evidence is piling up in preparation for the Hagenbach Cases Jury Trial now set for July 9th. "THOSE DOCUMENTS Should have been produced a year and a half ago" — Katherine Freberg Yesterday in court Katherine Freberg went on the record again about how difficult it's been to get the LA Archdiocese to cooperate with pretrial discovery. "At this point what we need is an order with a time deadline to force the defendants to turn over this discovery within the time limit," Freberg stated. "The problem is we get agreement from defendants to produce but with no court order. . ."
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