CALIFORNIA
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By Sheila Sanchez
The brother of the late Los Gatos Jesuit priest Jim Chevedden held a news conference in front of the San Jose Hall of Justice Wednesday at noon to announce a $5,000 reward for any information about his death.
John Chevedden says his brother’s demise, which San Jose Police said was a suicide after he jumped from the third story of the parking structure across from the courthouse on Hedding Street, is suspicious enough to reopen the investigation.
Jim Chevedden died in May 19, 2004 on his 56th birthday and according to his brother was coincidentally driven to the courthouse on that fateful day for jury duty by Father Jerold Lindner, the cleric who was beat up in May of 2010 by one of his alleged victims of abuse. That man, William Lynch, was acquitted on July 5 of felony assault and elder abuse of Lindner.
Now John Chevedden wants the San Jose Police Department to open the investigation into his brother’s death and is asking the California Province of
the Society of Jesus, headquartered in Los Gatos in a large compound at 300 College Ave., to turn over any records and documents related to the death to the authorities.
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