Supreme Court Justice F. Dana Winslow (See Profile) in Nassau County has ordered prosecutors to turn over "every single document," including grand jury testimony, in the file of a man convicted in a notorious 1980s sex abuse case. Winslow on Thursday granted Jesse Friedman's Freedom of Information request for all records related to his 1988 guilty plea to the alleged sexual abuse of more than a dozen boys in his Great Neck home. Friedman maintains his innocence, saying the plea was coerced. The Nassau County District Attorney's Office did a three-year review of the case and earlier this year said Friedman was not wrongfully convicted (NYLJ, June 25).
At the end of a 90-minute hearing, Winslow ruled from the bench that "every aspect, every part, every piece of paper generated in People v. Friedman" be turned over to Friedman—with the exception of possible redactions to the identities of witnesses who submitted letters to the judge asking their identities be withheld. He said he would not grant a stay of his ruling in Friedman v. Rice, 13-004015, stating prosecutors would have to ask the Appellate Division, Second Department, for a stay by Aug. 27.
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