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	Former Priest's Trial on Threat Charge Delayed Hanley, Ex-Pastor at Mendham Parish, Still in Hudson County Jail Daily Record August 15, 2007 http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770815003 New Jersey — A former Morris County priest at the center of an abuse scandal had his trial on terroristic threat charges postponed Tuesday until the middle of next month. James T. Hanley, once the pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Mendham, has been held in the Hudson County jail since last October on charges that he waved a baseball bat and threatened workers at a Secaucus hotel during an argument last year. Jury selection for a trial was scheduled to begin Tuesday at Hudson County Superior Court in Jersey City but court officials said it was postponed until Sept. 11. Hanley previously turned down a plea agreement that would have given him probation and 364 days in jail. The former priest has admitted to molesting at least a dozen children in Mendham and elsewhere in Morris County. He had been living in Paterson last year before some of his former victims picketed outside his home and handed out fliers to neighbors. He said he went to the Secaucus hotel while making plans to move to another town.
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