PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
THE JUDGE in the clergy-sex-abuse trial ruled yesterday that the jury can hear about the troubled past of one priest’s accuser.
Common Pleas Judge M. Teresa Sarmina said attorney Michael Wallace, who represents defrocked priest Edward Avery, can tell jurors about the man’s expulsion from the Catholic high school he attended in the early 2000s, and of discrepancies in the man’s related civil lawsuit and his grand-jury testimony.
Avery, 69, is charged with sexually assaulting the man when he was a 10-year-old altar boy in the 1990s. Wallace said the accuser is a drug addict who made up the allegation against Avery.
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