DALLAS (TX)
My Fox DFW
By: Melissa Cutler
DALLAS –
A Dallas jury is deliberating the fate of a former Catholic priest convicted in a murder-for-hire plot.
Prosecutors said John Fiala, a Garland resident who once served in the San Antonio diocese, tried to hire an undercover police officer to kill a teenager who accused him of sexual assault.
Jurors heard a taped recording of a discussion between Fiala and the undercover officer about payment to a hit man.
Fiala’s attorneys tried to argue that a neighbor was the one who hatched the scheme. But Fiala testified his neighbor had no motive.
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