The pesky "technical error" on the part of the commonwealth will unknit the case. This article is really about three articles rolled into one, and not terribly well written.
Seems to me the judge tried to get the Monsignor to give up his church lawyers because, she suggested, they would hang him out the dry to save themselves. She implied that his best bet was to turn state's evidence against the archdiocese. He declined and she was shocked. Big whoop - let the discovery begin.
And the Monsignor has some tenuous relationship to his lawyer because he was director of vocations for a span of 12 years during which some of the alleged abuses occurred and at some time during that period his lawyer was a seminarian? State needs to put its cards on the table, which, apparently, they will do within thirty days.
Finally, big mouth judge blurted out that she knew what she was talking about because she was the only one other than the prosecutors who had seen all the evidence. This seems to be a major no-no, withholding evidence from the defense.
In this judge vs defense attorney dust-up it may have been a case of noisy meets stupid. Philly is trying to prosecute a case like a shakedown and will botch it in the process.
Lucky Rome, eh?
The breaks just keep falling its way.