PRC Member’s Sexual Harassment Trial Resumes

SANTA FE, N.M.(AP) – Attorneys are presenting closing arguments in the trial of a state Public Regulation Commission member accused of sexually harassing a former assistant.

David King’s state district trial in Santa Fe began November 15th and recessed during the Thanksgiving weekend. Forty-three-year-old Wyla Green went to work for King in April 2003.

She filed a grievance seven months later, accusing him of sexual harassment. King fired her in March 2004.

She alleges retaliation, but he says he fired her because she missed work, falsified time sheets, misused a state cell phone, was tardy and insubordinate.

Green sued King six months later, alleging violations of the state Human Rights act.

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