PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Newsworks
BY AARON MOSELLE
Update: 3 p.m.
Common Pleas Court Judge Gwendolyn N. Bright has denied Msgr. William Lynn’s motion to dismiss. Defense attorney Thomas Bergstrom, Lynn’s lawyer, has not decided whether he will appeal Friday’s decision.
Bright is expected to rule next Tuesday on what evidence will be permitted at trial. She told prosecutors Friday to “narrow down” their examples of clergy sex abuse from the past.
Earlier story:
Monsignor William Lynn — the first American Catholic Church official to be convicted of covering up clergy molestation of children — will return to an 11th-floor courtroom Friday afternoon to learn whether he’ll face a new trial.
If a Philadelphia judge grants his motion to dismiss, Lynn will leave the hearing and, possibly, never return to the Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice.
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