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Article by: JEAN HOPFENSPERGER , Star Tribune Updated: June 9, 2014

St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson investigated priest abuse in Twin Cities, but testifies he cannot remember much.

A former auxiliary bishop who was a key figure in the Twin Cities archdiocese’s response to priest sex abuse from the 1980s to mid 1990s, testified in a court deposition that he did not report to police the charges of child sex abuse that crossed his desk over the years and that he no longer remembers them.

The deposition of St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson was released Monday as part of a lawsuit making its way through the courts filed by an alleged victim of clergy sex abuse.

A news conference is scheduled for Monday at 11 a.m. to discuss the deposition.

Carlson had been a point person behind the chancery’s investigation of Tom Adamson, a former priest…