MAHWAH – The Superior Court judge overseeing a trial pitting the township of Mahwah against a Native American tribe spent part of Friday touring the prayer ground at the center of the bitter dispute.
Superior Court Judge Roy F. McGeady, who is presiding over the trial, was led around the property by Dwaine Perry, chief of the Rampaough Lenape tribe.
McGeady stepped inside a yurt, peaked inside the chief’s tent and was smudged in a traditional custom using smoke before entering a prayer circle.
McGeady heard testimony during a month-long, one-day-a-week trial that closed Tuesday.