The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Friday upheld the criminal convictions of three Orthodox Jewish rabbis who planned the kidnapping of a man to force him to grant his wife a religious divorce.
In upholding the convictions of Mendel Epstein, Jay Goldstein and
Binyamin Stimler, the three-judge panel rejected claims of invasion of
privacy and religious freedom among the other six points the three men
made in their appeal.
Convicted in 2015 of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, Epstein,
Goldstein and Stimler argued that their Fourth Amendment right to
privacy was violated when FBI agents gathered information from their
cell phone providers indicating their general locations during the
investigations. During the trial, prosecutors used the information to
show that they were in the vicinity of locations where beatings of
husbands who refused to give their wives religious divorces occurred.
Federal court upholds convictions of rabbis in torture-for-divorce case | NJ.com
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