US Supreme Court declines convicted MCPS child molester’s appeal - Cloverly Elementary School - John Vigna

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a former [Montgomery County Public School] Silver Spring elementary school teacher’s argument that his conviction for having sexually abused students should be overturned because the trial judge refused to allow testimony regarding his appropriate behavior toward pupils to be introduced at trial.

In a single-line order, the justices without comment let stand a Maryland high court decision that John Vigna’s constitutional right to due process was not violated when the judge denied his request to present laudatory testimony of his interactions with students while  prosecutors were allowed to introduce evidence of his bad acts...

https://thedailyrecord.com/2021/03/22/supreme-court-declines-convicted-md-child-molesters-appeal/