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More images from Friday's judgment against the Vermont diocese

Burlington Free Press
October 10, 2009

[See also Jury Awards $2.2 Million to Former Altar Boy, by Sam Hemingway, Burlington Free Press, October 10, 2009.]

Bishop Salvatore Matano takes questions outside of Superior Court in Burlington on Friday afternoon, October 9, 2009, after a jury awarded a plaintiff $2.2 million in compensatory damages, the largest compensatory award ever handed out by a jury in a Vermont priest abuse case, but awarded nothing in punitive damages. This came just hours after the state supreme court, hearing a appeal of a former case, reversed the jury's verdict and ordered a new trial involving another priest molestation case. Ryan Mercer, Free Press

Bishop Salvatore Matano takes questions outside of Superior Court in Burlington on Friday afternoon, October 9, 2009, after a jury awarded a plaintiff $2.2 million in compensatory damages, the largest compensatory award ever handed out by a jury in a Vermont priest abuse case, but awarded nothing in punitive damages. This came just hours after the state supreme court, hearing a appeal of a former case, reversed the jury's verdict and ordered a new trial involving another priest molestation case. Ryan Mercer, Free Press

Plaintiff lawyer Jerome O'Neil takes questions outside of Superior Court in Burlington Friday afternoon, October 9, 2009, after their client was awarded $2.2 million in compensatory damages, the largest compensatory award ever handed out by a jury in a Vermont priest abuse case, but awarded nothing in punitive damages. This came just hours after the state supreme court, hearing a appeal of a former case, reversed the jury's verdict and ordered a new trial involving another priest molestation case. Ryan Mercer, Free Press

Bishop Salvatore Matano listens to the jury verdict in Superior Court in Burlington on Friday afternoon, October 9, 2009, as they awarded a plaintiff $2.2 million in compensatory damages, the largest compensatory award ever handed out by a jury in a Vermont priest abuse case, but awarded nothing in punitive damages. This came just hours after the state supreme court, hearing a appeal of a former case, reversed the jury's verdict and ordered a new trial involving another priest molestation case. Ryan Mercer, Free Press

Plaintiff lawyer Jerome O'Neil takes questions outside of Superior Court in Burlington Friday afternoon, October 9, 2009, after their client was awarded $2.2 million in compensatory damages, the largest compensatory award ever handed out by a jury in a Vermont priest abuse case, but awarded nothing in punitive damages. This came just hours after the state supreme court, hearing a appeal of a former case, reversed the jury's verdict and ordered a new trial involving another priest molestation case. Ryan Mercer, Free Press

Diocese defense attorney Tom McCormick takes questions outside of Superior Court in Burlington Friday afternoon, October 9, 2009, after a jury awarded $2.2 million in compensatory damages against the church, the largest compensatory award ever handed out by a jury in a Vermont priest abuse case, but awarded nothing in punitive damages. This came just hours after the state supreme court, hearing a appeal of a former case, reversed the jury's verdict and ordered a new trial involving another priest molestation case. Ryan Mercer, Free Press

[Tom McCormick]