CALIFORNIA
Mercury News
By Tracey Kaplan
tkaplan@mercurynews.com
mercurynews.com
Posted: 07/02/2012
A prosecutor this morning urged jurors to convict a San Francisco man accused of beating a priest, even though Rev. Jerold Lindner may have sexually molested Will Lynch decades ago.
In her 45-minute closing argument, Vicki Gemetti acknowledged people are sympathetic to Lynch, but she reminded jurors of a basic principle from their youth.
“This case is as simple as what we learned as small children from our mom, ‘two wrongs don’t make a right,’ ” Gemetti said.
Lynch, now 44, is charged with two felonies for the March 10, 2010 assault on Lindner at the Sacred Heart retirement home in Los Gatos, where Lindner is listed as a child molester. Lynch faces a maximum of four years in prison.
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