CALIFORNIA
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Claiming that the prosecutor in the San Jose priest-beating trial committed misconduct, defense attorneys Friday asked the judge to declare a mistrial based on the explosive accusation.
Attorneys for Will Lynch — who is accused of beating up the Jesuit priest he says brutally molested him and his brother when they were children — claim the prosecutor committed misconduct by suborning perjury.
Deputy District Attorney Vicki Gemetti, they contend, put Father Jerold Lindner on the stand Wednesday after announcing to the jury he would almost certainly lie under oath by denying the alleged molestation.
As predicted, Lindner testified he had not raped Lynch when he was 7 or molested his 4-year-old brother on a camping trip in the 1970s in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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