PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
To Taleah Grimmage, Juror No. 7 in the Msgr. Lynn case, the news that Lynn’s conviction had been reversed came as a “slight shock.”
“While I still think he [Msgr. Lynn] ultimately played a part in the atrocities that occurred, he certainly was not the ONLY person that should have been held responsible,” Grimmage wrote in an email. “[I’m looking at YOU Cardinals Krol and Bevilacqua].”
Grimmage, who voted to convict Lynn in 2012 after sitting through a 13 week trial, as well as 13 days of deliberations, said she never understood the district attorney’s strategy of charging Lynn with endangering the welfare of a child. She did, however, believe the D.A. had succeeded in sending a message to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
As far as the monsignor is concerned, Grimmage was curious to know what effect being “unjustly” imprisoned for 18 months has had on the monsignor, who so far, has declined to talk to reporters.
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