CALIFORNIA
NBC Bay Area
By Lori Preuitt
Wednesday, Sep 12, 2012
Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced Wednesday his office will not charge former priest Jerold Lindner with perjury.
That is not the news Rev. Lindner’s victims, who claim he sexually abused them when they were children, wanted to hear.
One of the alleged victims, Will Lynch, went to trial for assaulting the former priest earlier this summer. He was acquitted even though he admitted to the attack.
It was during that trial that Lynch and others said Rev. Lindner committed perjury when he denied the molestation charges on the witness stand.
Lynch has spent weeks pressuring the DA to charge the former priest for lying when he said that.
Rosen said although he believes Rev. Lindner did lie, the charge of perjury is not just about lying under oath.
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