PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial

By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net

Defense lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn say the state Supreme Court’s decision to review the case could result in two more years of appeals.

Defense lawyers are worried about a scenario where it’s 2017, and Msgr. William J. Lynn is being tried for a second time.

By that juncture, Lynn will have served a year and a half in jail, and at least three years under house arrest.

“It could be unending,” Thomas A. Bergstrom, Lynn’s lead defense lawyer, said about future appeals in the case.

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams is not commenting about the state Supreme Court’s decision last week to grant the D.A.’s petition for a review of the Lynn case. But a former prosecutor in the district attorney’s office says the state Supreme Court’s review may be less about Lynn and more about sending…