The lawyers for a Catholic church official charged with endangering the welfare of children allegedly abused by priests he supervised are arguing that their client’s Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel would be violated if the Archdiocese of Philadelphia is able to assert an independent attorney-client privilege.
The archdiocese has filed a motion to quash the subpoena of Monsignor William J. Lynn, the archdiocese’s former secretary for clergy, for 12 communications Lynn had between 1993 and 1999 with attorneys John P. O’Dea and C. Clark Hodgson Jr. of Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, the longtime outside counsel for the archdiocese.
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