David Meehan, center, walks out of the courtroom with his attorney Rus Rilee and victim specialist Joelle Wiggin during Meehan's trial at Rockingham Superior Court in Brentwood, N.H., on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. (David Lane/Union Leader via AP, Pool)
FILE - David Meehan, lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit accusing the State of New Hampshire of covering up decades of sexual, physical and emotional abuse at its youth detention center, poses for a photo outside his lawyer's office in Portsmouth, N.H., Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. The class-action suit was later dismissed, but Meehan’s individual case goes to trial Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in Rockingham County Superior Court. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)