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	Plaintiff Wants Church to Pay Court Costs in Sex Abuse Trial WPTZ July 23, 2007 http://www.wptz.com/news/13733823/detail.html Burlington, Vt. — The lawyers for a man who sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington in a priest sex case that ended in a mistrial last month now want the church to pay their legal tab. Jerome O'Neill and law partner John Evers said they ran up more than $100,000 in legal costs preparing and trying the case of James Turner, and that the Diocese should be ordered to pay the bill. Judge Ben Joseph, who declared a mistrial in the case June 25 after four days of testimony, blamed it on church attorney David Cleary, saying Cleary violated pre-trial rulings on what Turner could be asked about the relationship between the priest he accused and Turner's brother. Cleary says it was ridiculous to declare a mistrial in the case.
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