PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2017
By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net
On the witness stand today, retired Detective Joseph Walsh detailed numerous inconsistencies in the many contrary stories told by Danny Gallagher, the former altar boy who claimed he was raped by two priests and a Catholic schoolteacher.
And when Walsh told Assistant District Attorney Mariana Sorensen about those inconsistencies, her reply, according to Walsh was, “You’re killing my case.”
At the end of a nearly three-hour pre-trial hearing today, Thomas A. Bergstrom, a lawyer for Msgr. William J. Lynn, stood before the judge and asserted what Sorensen should have done when faced with all those inconsistencies: confront Gallagher and find out what was the truth.
But Sorensen, who was not called by the District Attorney as a witness today to refute Detective Walsh, never did confront Danny Gallagher, Bergstrom told the judge. Why? Because, Bergstrom said, Sorensen had to know, “That’s the kid’s a liar.”
The hearing in Common Pleas Court today was held before Judge Gwendolyn N. Bright. The judge was trying to decide whether to grant a motion by Bergstrom to dismiss the retrial of Msgr. Lynn, scheduled for May, because of Bergstrom’s allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.
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