PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial
MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2013
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
On June 20, defense lawyers for Father Charles Engelhardt and Bernard Shero filed motions to appeal Judge Ellen Ceisler’s “excessive and unreasonable” sentences.
On June 21, Judge Ceisler denied both motions. The defense can now appeal the judge’s decisions to Superior Court.
The court documents, however, lay out for the first time the details on how brutally the judge clobbered the defendants.
Let’s start with Engelhardt.
The jury convicted Engelhardt on three charges: endangering the welfare of a child, indecent assault, and corrupting the morals of a minor. The jury convicted the priest of a fourth charge, conspiracy, but the judge said the jury made a mistake on that one, and she tossed the conspiracy charge as unproven.
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