DEWITT, NY - A parent delivers an envelope to a school board member at a public meeting. Seems routine enough.

In this case, it's anything but.

The parent, Marilyn Jeffrey, is on trial tonight in DeWitt Town Court on a charge of second-degree harassment stemming from an exchange at a June 2016 Fayetteville-Manlius school board meeting.

The complainant who took the case to the police is Lisa D. Izant, an F-M school board member since 2009 and board vice president from 2011 to 2015.

Jeffrey and her husband - an F-M teacher at the time - had been battling the F-M district over the denial of certain special-education services for one of the couple's sons. At one point, Jeffrey took the unusual step of moving into an apartment in another school district to get the services for her child that F-M denied.

In papers filed with the court, Izant says Jeffrey walked into a board of education meeting at Enders Road Elementary School about 6:30 p.m. June 6, 2016 and threw "a large manila envelope" at her.

Izant said the envelope weighed several pounds and struck her in the right wrist, according to the papers. Izant said in the legal document that she was subjected to "unwanted physical contact" and suffered a contusion - or bruise - to the median palmar nerve.

Manlius police later charged Jeffrey with second-degree harassment, a violation.

A trial is being held in the town of DeWitt at 7 p.m. today before Judge David Gideon. Town judges in Manlius recused themselves from the case.

Jeffrey referred comment to her lawyer, Michael Castle.

"She (Jeffrey) did absolutely nothing wrong," Castle said, but declined further comment until after the trial.

Izant also declined comment due to the litigation.

Jeffrey's husband, Kent, filed a lawsuit against the F-M district in June 2017 alleging school officials defamed him and his family as they continued to challenge the district over the denial of services for one of their sons.