The high court said Alabama had to let Willie B. Smith III have his pastor in the chamber when he was put to death. Alabama insists non-prison personnel should be kept out for security reasons.
The high court said Alabama had to let Willie B. Smith III have his pastor in the chamber when he was put to death. Alabama insists non-prison personnel should be kept out for security reasons.
Published January 26. 2021 12:45AM
HARTFORD (AP) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a Connecticut rabbi s appeal of a $21.7 million jury verdict in a lawsuit that accused him of sexually abusing a teenage boy.
The court provided no comments in its decision to let stand a federal appeals court ruling last year that upheld the verdict against Rabbi Daniel Greer, 80, and the Yeshiva of New Haven school he founded.
Greer was sentenced to 12 years in prison in December 2019 on state criminal charges related to the abuse. Messages seeking comment were left Monday for his lawyer.
The 2017 verdict came in a federal court lawsuit filed by a New Jersey man, Eliyahu Mirlis, now 33, who said Greer repeatedly sexually abused him in 2002 and 2003 when he was a teenager attending the school. Greer denies he abused Mirlis and is appealing his criminal convictions.