Ex-church official gets trial date days after leaving prison
PHILADELPHIA – A former Philadelphia church official has been given a retrial date, two days after he was released from prison when his child-endangerment conviction was overturned.
A judge on Thursday set a May 1 trial date for Monsignor William Lynn, who appeared in court but didn’t speak.
Lynn was the first church official ever charged or convicted over his handling of complaints that priests were molesting children.
The conviction has twice been overturned, most recently when the state’s top court said the trial judge let too many church victims not directly linked to the case testify.
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams insisted on retrying the case after Lynn was released.
Prosecutors expect about a month-long trial — much shorter than his high-profile 2012 trial that lasted three months.
Lynn is free on bail and living with relatives.
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