PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial

THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013

By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, has called for an investigation of the local district attorney’s office. He wants to know if any prosecutor had a financial stake in the criminal convictions of three priests and a former Catholic school teacher.

In response, the disciplinary board of the state Supreme Court has assigned disciplinary counsel Donna M. Snyder to investigate.

Meanwhile, the National Catholic Reporter, the paper that led the way in exposing the national scandal of clerical sex abuse, has run an editorial questioning the credibility of the district attorney’s star witness.

Here’s what NCR had to say about the witness responsible for putting three priests and a former teacher in jail: “The discrepancies between Billy Doe’s accounts to the archdiocese and later to the grand jury are not minor, they are utterly…