STOCKTON (CA)
Lodi News-Sentinel
Posted: Friday, March 16, 2012
By Katie Nelson/News-Sentinel Staff Writer
Cross examination of the plaintiff in the Father Michael Kelly sexual assault civil trial continued today, accompanied by frequent verbal jousting between lawyers.
The majority of the day was spent as defense lawyer Thomas Beatty read or presented videotape of the plaintiff speaking with Beatty or with Stockton diocese lawyer James Goodman about the plaintiff’s alleged sexual encounters with Kelly.
Beatty would then question the plaintiff on what he said in the past during interviews regarding the case.
But Beatty’s line of questioning, which ranged from the plaintiff’s relationship with his father to the plaintiff’s memories of door locations at a rectory, were often objected to by the plaintiff’s attorney, John Manly.
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