MELBOURNE (AUSTRALIA)
Associated Press via New York Times
March 1, 2018
An Australian prosecutor on Friday withdrew a single charge against Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic cleric to face a sex prosecution.
The 76-year-old Australian cardinal will appear on Monday in a court in Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city where Pell was once archbishop, for the start of a monthlong preliminary hearing to determine whether prosecutors have sufficient evidence to warrant a jury trial.
Prosecutor Mark Gibson told the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday that one charge had been withdrawn.
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