PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2016
By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams lost an appeal in state Superior Court this morning in his crusade to keep Msgr. William J. Lynn behind bars.
Williams had asked the full, nine-member court to review a Dec. 22nd decision by a three-court panel of Superior Court judges that reversed Lynn’s conviction and ordered a new trial. But in a one-sentence decision released this morning, the Superior Court announced that the D.A.’s application “requesting reargument” of the case had been “DENIED.”
Lynn has remained behind bars pending appeals in the case. The 64-year-old monsignor is currently working for 19 cents an hour as the prison librarian at the State Correctional Institute in Waymart, Pa. But now that the state Superior Court has ruled on the D.A.’s appeal, it will surprise nobody if Lynn’s lawyers file a motion for bail.
Meanwhile, the D.A. has a decision to make; whether he will appeal the state Superior Court decision overturning Lynn’s conviction to the state Supreme Court, where he has been successful in the past. The D.A. has not yet issued any public pronouncements on what he will do. But in a press conference last month, Williams vowed to do whatever was necessary to keep Lynn in jail.
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