PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial

By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net

The defense lawyer for Father Andrew McCormick today accused the district attorney’s office of prosecutorial misconduct for trying to put a Catholic priest in jail “by any means necessary.”

The D.A.’s office “took every witness at their word no matter how fantastical the story was,” Trevan Borum complained to reporters outside the Criminal Justice Center.

Borum, a former prosecutor himself, said that the D.A.’s office didn’t do their homework, but “Thank God we did.” Speaking moments after a judge lifted a gag order, Borum told reporters about how the defense went out looking for witnesses to refute the prosecution’s case.

“They were easy to find,” Borum said, including a former altar boy now a state trooper who discredited a key prosecution witness. That’s how Borum managed to thwart a district attorney’s office that he said was “looking to convict…