PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2014
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
After more than 18 months in prison, Msgr. William J. Lynn is a free man.
Shortly before 10 a.m. this morning, Lynn walked out of the Currann-Fromhold Correctional Facility on State Road in Northeast Philadelphia, where he was greeted by family members and some friends in collars.
He doesn’t look the same. In prison, Lynn lost some 80 pounds.
“He looks good,” said his lawyer, Thomas A. Bergstrom. “He was on the treadmill every day and [in prison] the food is not that great.”
Lynn was wearing an electronic ankle bracelet when he walked out of jail. On Monday at 12:30 a.m., he has to report to Courtroom 507 in the Criminal Justice Center, where Judge M. Teresa Sarmina will personally review her conditions for paroling Lynn.
“He’s prepared to go in Monday and tolerate whatever he has to tolerate,” Bergstrom said. “He has no problem abiding by the court’s rules.”
Lynn will remain on administrative leave with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, according to a letter issued today by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput.
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