Court debate over Friedman prison discipline
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Jesse Friedman and his wife, Lisabeth, hold a news conference at the courthouse in Mineola after Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice released the results of a three-year review of his 1988 sex abuse case. (June 24, 2013)
A hearing Friday on whether the Nassau district attorney should release documents in the Jesse Friedman child molestation case devolved quickly into a debate over whether Friedman was disciplined in prison in 2000 for allegedly writing and distributing stories about incest and child rape.
Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice had mentioned the stories in a report released Monday re-examining...