PENNSYLVANIA
Big Trial
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2014
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
Under a stained glass dome and bronze statues of Moses and Solomon, the state’s highest court this morning debated the fate of Msgr. William J. Lynn.
“God save the Commonwealth and this honorable court,” the court crier shouted in the packed, ornate chambers of the state Supreme Court on the fourth floor of the state Capitol in Harrisburg.
Up at the raised mahogany bench, Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille got things rolling by announcing, “The issue here was this application of the [child] endangerment statute.”
That really is the issue in the Lynn case. The other justices, however, did not seem to want to stick to that script as they fired one extraneous shot after another at Thomas A. Bergstrom, the monsignor’s defense lawyer.
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