Juror Ill, Clergy Sex Trial Postponed

By Ross Farrow
Lodi News-Sentinel
March 27, 2012

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Court was canceled today in the civil trial involving Lockeford priest Michael Kelly because one of the jurors was ill.

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On Wednesday, San Francisco psychiatrist Dr. Anlee Kuo is scheduled to continue her testimony from last Friday, and the plaintiff’s wife is scheduled to testify Wednesday afternoon.

A 37-year-old man has sued Kelly, claiming that the Catholic priest sexually assaulted him in the mid-1980s, when the plaintiff was an altar boy at Cathedral of the Annunciation in Stockton. His name is not being released by court order because he is a potential sexual assault victim. Kelly has not been criminally charged.

Testimony will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday at San Joaquin County Superior Court, 222 E. Weber Ave., Department 42, fourth floor, Stockton.

Contact reporter Ross Farrow at rossf@lodinews.com