By Ben Finley, Allison Steele, and Aubrey Whelan, Inquirer Staff Writers
a 43-page opinion, a three-judge Superior Court panel wrote that prosecutors and a judge misapplied the state's child-endangerment law by claiming Lynn was criminally responsible because he supervised a priest, Edward Avery, when Avery sexually abused an altar boy in the mid-1990s.
The court found the law at the time applied only to people who directly supervised children.
Lynn, 62, has been serving a three- to six-year term in a northeast Pennsylvania prison since his conviction last year. His lawyer, Thomas A. Bergstrom, said he hoped the monsignor would be freed in days.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20131227_Court_reverses_Philly_priest_s_conviction.html#uEhEDKJIhvW2dHjb.99
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