ALLENTOWN (PA)
Of The Morning Call
June 21, 2018
By Steve Esack and Tim Darragh
Two paragraphs, 63 words.
That’s all it took for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to halt the pending publication of a lengthy grand jury report detailing decades of child sex abuse claims and possible cover-ups in six Catholic dioceses.
The high court’s majority decision, issued Wednesday, could be unprecedented under the state’s grand jury law, which is revered by prosecutors for its investigative power, decried by some defense lawyers as unconstitutional overreach and the subject of separate judicial and legislative reviews.
But the reasoning behind the justices’ decision is unknown.
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