SAN JOSE (CA)
NBC Bay Area
By Lisa Fernandez and Arturo Santiago
| Thursday, Jul 5, 2012
A Santa Clara County jury on Thursday is expected to return a verdict on whether a man who beat a priest who he said sexually abused him years ago is guilty or not of felony assault.
If found guilty, William Lynch could face up to four years in prison when he is sentenced.
Lynch, 44 of San Francisco never denied the 2010 assault on Rev. Jerold Lindner, a Catholic priest living at the Sacred Heart retirement home in Los Gatos. But he testified he did so because Lindner allegedly raped him and his brother when they were children in the 1970s.
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