BOUGHT TESTIMONY

Testimony as tainted as this should never even be presented at a trial. It is a disgrace to California that such corrupt deals are still being done. One can only hope that the jury will disregard such nonsense

A California pastor who sold his congregation's church to buy an expensive car will avoid further jail time by agreeing to testify in a murder case. San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Garber sentenced Randall Radic, 54, of Ripon to 16 months in prison.

However, Radic already spent six months in jail and won't have to serve the remainder of the sentence if Garber believes the former pastor is telling the truth when he testifies in the upcoming murder trial of Roy Gerald Smith. Radic's sentencing was delayed nine times while prosecutors and Radic worked out the deal that kept him out of prison.

Prosecutors say Radic met the murder defendant in jail and is one of two witnesses who have incriminating evidence suggesting Smith killed Mary Morino-Starkey, 46, who disappeared in June 2005. Her body has still not been found.

Radic was in jail last year awaiting trial for secretly selling the First Congregational Church and its rectory, and pocketing the proceeds to buy himself a new $102,000 BMW car and a laptop computer.

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