No Bail for Msgr. Lynn, Judge Affirms

By Joseph A. Slobodzian
Philadelphia Inquirer
August 5, 2012

http://articles.philly.com/2012-08-06/news/33066187_1_william-j-lynn-legal-costs-child-endangerment

File photo: A Philadelphia judge on Monday denied a motion for bail pending appeal for…

Citing the "serious nature of his conduct," a Philadelphia judge on Monday denied a request by lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn to free the 61-year-old former archdiocesan official on bail while he appeals his child-endangerment conviction.

Common Pleas Court Judge M. Teresa Sarmina rejected the motion by defense lawyers Jeffrey M. Lindy and Alan J. Tauber after an often acrimonious 15-minute hearing.

On July 24, Sarmina sentenced Lynn to three to six years in prison after a jury found him guilty of child endangerment in the landmark Catholic clergy sex-abuse trial.

Lynn was not at the hearing. He had waived his right to be present and is at the state prison at Camp Hill near Harrisburg.