Jury Deliberates in Priest's Abuse Trial
Baltimore, Maryland --
Jurors began deliberations Wednesday following closing arguments in the trial of a former priest accused of sexually molesting an altar boy, who shot the cleric on a city street a decade after the alleged abuse.
Maurice Blackwell, 58, who did not testify, faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted of molesting Dontee Stokes, 29, who served home detention on a gun charge for attacking the former Roman Catholic priest.
In their closing arguments, defense attorneys portrayed Stokes as a disturbed young man who made up the allegations to deal with a sexual identity crisis, and the prosecution called him a vulnerable victim preyed upon by a trusted father figure.
Read the article at ABC News dated Feb 16, 2005
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Jurors began deliberations Wednesday following closing arguments in the trial of a former priest accused of sexually molesting an altar boy, who shot the cleric on a city street a decade after the alleged abuse.
Maurice Blackwell, 58, who did not testify, faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted of molesting Dontee Stokes, 29, who served home detention on a gun charge for attacking the former Roman Catholic priest.
In their closing arguments, defense attorneys portrayed Stokes as a disturbed young man who made up the allegations to deal with a sexual identity crisis, and the prosecution called him a vulnerable victim preyed upon by a trusted father figure.
Read the article at ABC News dated Feb 16, 2005
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