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By Sheila Sanchez

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said Friday it’s investigating whether to file perjury charges against Los Gatos Jesuit priest Jerold Lindner, the victim in the high-profile William Lynch assault and elder abuse case.

The trial for Lynch, 44, ended July 5 with his acquittal by a Santa Clara County jury of the two felony charges stemming from an admitted confrontation he had with the priest, now 67, whom he says raped and sodomized him and his brother while children in the ’70s.

Last week, the DA’s Office announced it wouldn’t retry Lynch on a misdemeanor assault charge that the jury hung 8-4. However, even before the county’s top prosecutor announced he wouldn’t be refiling the charge, Lynch’s supporters were calling for Jeff Rosen to file perjury charges against the priest.