PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Daily News
BY MENSAH M. DEAN
Daily News Staff Writer
THE FIRST FIVE jurors were selected yesterday in the child-sexual-abuse trial of three Philadelphia Catholic priests.
Jury selection was scheduled to resume this morning, with 30 more potential jurors to be interviewed, Common Pleas Judge M. Teresa Sarmina said last night.
Earlier in the day, Sarmina rejected a defense motion requesting that child-endangerment charges be dropped against a former Catholic church official due to the discovery of new evidence.
She ruled after prosecutors asserted that the new evidence actually will help them prove the guilt of Monsignor William Lynn.
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