PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Joseph A. Slobodzian and John P. Martin
Inquirer Staff Writers
The 11 weeks of speeches, emotional and shocking testimony, and legal fireworks are now memories.
When the landmark conspiracy and sex-abuse trial involving Archdiocese of Philadelphia priests resumes Monday, the action will be behind closed doors: a jury room off the large third-floor courtroom at the city’s Criminal Justice Center.
There, seven women and five men will begin their first full day of trying to decide whether Msgr. William J. Lynn is criminally culpable for how the Philadelphia church handled the crimes of some of its priests.
The Common Pleas Court jurors worked just three hours Friday, but they already appear deep into dissecting the evidence.
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