CALIFORNIA
Patch
By Sheila Sanchez
Defrocked Jesuit priest Jerold Lindner denied Wednesday that he raped and sodomized the man accused of assaulting him in May of 2010.
Lindner’s denial caused defendant William Lynch’s attorney, Paul Harris, to threaten to file perjury charges against the 67-year-old ex-priest.
Lindner took the witness stand on the first day of Lynch’s trial and was questioned by prosecutor Vicki Gemetti about the assault on the afternoon of May 10, 2010 at the Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos.
“Did you molest the defendant and his brother?” Gemetti asked during the high-profile case in Department 34 of the San Jose Hall of Justice. Lindner answered: “No.” The testimony came after Gemetti asked Lindner what Lynch told him when they met in a parlor at the center.
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