PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial
THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2014
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
A week after a panel of Superior Court judges reversed his landmark conviction and ordered him to be “discharged forthwith,” Msgr. William J. Lynn remains in jail.
It’s not known whether Lynn will be out by Sunday, his 63rd birthday. But on 12:30 p.m. Monday, the prisoner is scheduled to return to the courtroom of Judge M. Teresa Sarmina, for another ritualistic humiliation.
“I want him in front of me when I tell him what his conditions are,” Judge Sarmina warned ominously from the bench last week, regarding what she described as her “conditions pending bail.” This is the same judge who presided over Lynn’s now discredited show trial in 2012, a judge whose application of the law in that case was unanimously panned by a panel of three Superior Court judges as “fundamentally flawed.”
Sarmina isn’t through with Lynn yet. Concerned about about the monsignor’s possible flight to the Vatican, the judge has ordered the official scapegoat of the archdiocese prosecution to turn in his passport and put up $250,000 bail. She also wants the monsignor to wear an electronic ankle bracelet, and report on a weekly basis to a Philadelphia parole officer.
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