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Defrocked Priest Found Guilty on All Counts

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Mon Feb 07, 2005 at 01:25:41 PM EST
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Update: Guilty all counts.

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The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of defrocked Priest Paul Shanley. It will be read later this afternoon. Background here.

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    Defrocked Priest Found Guilty on All Counts | 9 comments (9 topical)
    Re: Defrocked Priest Found Guilty on All Counts (none / 0) (#1)
    by Quaker in a Basement on Mon Feb 07, 2005 at 02:08:59 PM EST
    That fast? Then they'll come back with Not Guilty.

    Re: Defrocked Priest Found Guilty on All Counts (none / 0) (#2)
    by Kitt on Mon Feb 07, 2005 at 02:37:49 PM EST
    Isn't it good to be 'wrong' sometimes, Quaker? Paul Shanley....nothing nice to say here. He got better than he deserved though.

    Re: Defrocked Priest Found Guilty on All Counts (none / 0) (#3)
    by Quaker in a Basement on Mon Feb 07, 2005 at 03:00:35 PM EST
    Isn't it good to be 'wrong' sometimes, Quaker? Maybe. But not this time, I think. Shanley was convicted only on the "recovered memory" testimony of his accuser? I'll be eager to read any explanations from jurors of how they cleared the hurdle of reasonable doubt.

    Re: Defrocked Priest Found Guilty on All Counts (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Feb 07, 2005 at 03:27:36 PM EST
    Excellent verdict! Let's hope he gets life in prison with alot of very friendly inmates.

    Re: Defrocked Priest Found Guilty on All Counts (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Feb 07, 2005 at 05:50:25 PM EST
    Lacey, you should be reading a different site. I'm with Quaker...repressed memories without corroborative evidence doesn't pass reasonable doubt for me.

    Re: Defrocked Priest Found Guilty on All Counts (none / 0) (#6)
    by Quaker in a Basement on Mon Feb 07, 2005 at 10:18:05 PM EST
    According to Monday's NYT, the jury decided Shanley was guilty because they couldn't think of a reason why the accuser would lie. This is evidence?

    Re: Defrocked Priest Found Guilty on All Counts (none / 0) (#7)
    by Dadler on Tue Feb 08, 2005 at 09:10:38 AM EST
    i agree with TL on the recovered memory stuff, but i have to say shanley's reaction to the verdict did not lend me to believe he is innocent. not a good basis for a legal system, but human beings are faulty creatures.

    Re: Defrocked Priest Found Guilty on All Counts (none / 0) (#8)
    by Kitt on Tue Feb 08, 2005 at 02:18:20 PM EST
    Here's an article from the Boston Globe. It makes me wonder about the involvement of the jurors say in their parish if they were Catholic, etc. I'm Catholic and at the time this started breaking, we were outside of Cleveland and participated greatly in our parish...social justice committee, parish council, eucharistic ministers - that kind of thing. Nothing has shaken my 'faith' in the church more than the bullsh*t that especially went on in Boston (Cardinal Law), Cleveland itself with Bishop Pilla and a few priests whom he had transferred around as well. It was just another institution working to cover its ass.

    Re: Defrocked Priest Found Guilty on All Counts (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Feb 09, 2005 at 01:24:37 PM EST
    Et al... Just a general question for anyone on the left.... Is anyone ever guilty of anything in your eyes?

    Defrocked Priest Found Guilty on All Counts | 9 comments (9 topical)