PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial

By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams is asking Judge M. Teresa Sarmina to deny bail to Msgr. William J. Lynn, on the basis that Lynn is a “flight risk” who may seek refuge in the Vatican.

A panel of three Superior Court judges on Dec. 26th reversed Lynn’s “historic” 2012 conviction on one count of endangering the welfare of a child, and said that the monsignor should be “discharged forthwith.” But the D.A. isn’t going along with the higher court’s opinion at a bail hearing scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday before Judge Sarmina.

Lynn was labeled a “flight risk” in a six-page answer to a petition for a bail hearing filed by Hugh J. Burns, Jr., chief of the D.A.’s appeals unit. The monsignor is a “high ranking official [in] a worldwide organization, the Roman Catholic Church, that has both…