PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial
TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2014
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
In a grudge match before the state Supreme Court, defense lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn will square off against District Attorney Seth Williams.
At stake is the freedom of Lynn, whose historic June 22, 2012 conviction on one count of endangering the welfare of a child was reversed on Dec. 26, 2013 by the state Superior Court.
Both the district attorney and Lynn’s defense lawyers have filed briefs in anticipation of a yet-unscheduled hearing before the state’s highest court. The district attorney began his 33-page filing on July 10th by charging that Lynn “was a high ranking Archdiocesan official specifically responsible for protecting children from pedophile priests.”
“Instead, he relocated them, as part of a general scheme of concealment, in a manner that put additional children at risk of being sexually molested,” the district attorney wrote. In reversing Lynn’s conviction, “The Superior Court erred and should be reversed,” concluded the brief filed by Chief of the D.A.’s Appeal Unit Hugh J. Burns Jr., Deputy District Attorney Ronald Eisenberg, First Assistant District Attorney Edward F. McCann Jr., and D.A. Seth Williams.
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