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  The Raving of Church Attorneys Reminds One of a Psych Ward As Civil Cases Re Sex Criminal Priests in LA Head for Jury Trials

City of Angels [Los Angeles]
May 18, 2007

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So much happened on the 16th that I'm writing another post, mostly copying and pasting from my notes.

Church Attorney Donald Woods objects saying why do plaintiffs need to ask other rectory residents if there were young boys in the room alone with a pedophile priest, when we already know the priest was raping the boy at the family's home, why do we need to know what was going on in the rectory — or words do that effect. You see what I mean about twisting logic into knots?

The church can't find real legal arguments to fight its case so it inundates the court, through hundreds of attorneys filing thousands of motions, creating a cacophony of crooked talk that goes on and on and on until —

Tony DeMarco for the plaintiffs steps in, his face pulsating red, and says a line like:

DEMARCO: Knew, had reason to know, or was on notice. Those are the relevant issues in the statute of limitations law.

When DeMarco said those words it was a pivotal moment in court Wednesday. The church attorneys as usual had been droning on like schizophrenics and DeMarco brought it back down to the law.

The room literally went quiet after he said that. Then Fromholz said:

FROMHOLZ: Okay. Hold to granting the motion.

 
 

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