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The negotiations are continuing in a priest sex abuse case while the jury is deliberating. Or, are they?

Gag order issued in priest sex abuse case

A judge presiding over a civil trial in which a former altar boy has accused a Fresno priest of sexual abuse has issued a gag order to prevent lawyers from swaying jury deliberations.

Judge Donald Black issued his order after Juan Rocha's lawyer, Larry Drivon, said his client had offered to settle the lawsuit in Fresno County Superior Court for $1 -- provided Father Eric Swearingen leaves the priesthood.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno immediately rejected the offer, made Thursday, on the first day of jury deliberations.

"Maybe [Drivon] wants people to know his client isn't greedy," Fresno lawyer Nicholas "Butch" Wagner said.

Or, maybe, the offer was made with the expectation it would be rejected and then could be used to influence the deliberations via the news media.

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