Ending a long fight, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes will release more than 100 pages of documents related to the case of Avrohom Mondrowitz, the American Orthodox rabbi alleged to have sexually abused dozens of children before fleeing, eventually to Israel, in 1984. The release may help resolve contentions — rejected by Hynes — that…
A dogged lawyer has lost his years-long battle to force Brooklyn’s District Attorney to release a trove of documents related to a alleged Orthodox child molester. But attorney Michael Lesher believes the New York state Court of Appeals left him a legal opening to eventually win the release of the documents. Lesher used New York’s…
The power of state freedom of information laws will be tested when a scrappy New Jersey lawyer who represents victims of an alleged ultra-Orthodox child abuser faces off against Brooklyn’s district attorney in court later this month. Michael Lesher will argue in New York State’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, on February 14 that…
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