PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial
By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net
Seth Williams should bring an umbrella to work.
Why? Because our corrupt district attorney, already under investigation by the FBI, the IRS and a grand jury, is about to see his proudest achievement as a prosecutor get splattered with excrement.
What does Seth Williams consider to be his proudest achievement? Why his self-described “historic” prosecution of Msgr. William J. Lynn, the first Catholic cleric in the country to be sent to jail, not for touching a child, but for failing to control sexually abusive priests. It’s an achievement that has caused church haters and so-called victims advocates to swoon over Seth. At the height of this adulation, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd proclaimed Seth, raised Catholic, to be the “avenging altar boy.”
But there’s long been a problem with the Lynn case, namely that the alleged victim — former altar boy Danny Gallagher AKA “Billy Doe” — is a transparent fraud, as revealed in his copious medical records, legal depositions, and in two interviews with a couple of psychiatrists.
Today, Lynn’s lawyer, Thomas A. Bergstrom, filed a motion in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court that seeks to take the pre-trial testimony of retired Detective Joseph Walsh. Here’s why alarm bells are about to go off at the D.A.’s office as soon as they read Bergstrom’s motion — Walsh was the lead investigator in the Billy Doe case. And, according to Bergstrom’s motion, Walsh has talked to defense lawyers and “provided exculpatory evidence” never revealed to defense lawyers during two previous archdiocese sex abuse trials.
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