CALIFORNIA
Marin Independent Journal
By Tracey Kaplan
tkaplan@mercurynews.com
mercurynews.com
Posted: 06/25/2012
A Santa Clara County judge this morning rejected the defense’s motions for a mistrial in the priest-beating case.
Judge David A. Cena also said testimony will resume later this morning with Rev. Jerold Lindner back on the stand.
Lindner allegedly molested Will Lynch when he was a child. Decades later, Lynch is accused of beating Lindner at a Los Gatos center for retired priests.
Lynch’s attorneys filed two motions for a mistrial. The first was that prosecutor Vicki Gemetti suborned perjury when Gemetti put Lindner on the stand Wednesday after announcing to the jury in her opening statement that he molested the brothers and would almost certainly lie under oath by denying the alleged molestation or saying he didn’t remember.
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