A jiu-jitsu student was granted $56 million after his black belt instructor left him paralyzed from the neck down, according to the New York Post. While 30-year-old Jack Greener was just a beginner, his 33-year-old teacher Francisco Iturralde, better known as “Sinistro,” held a second-degree black belt.

Black Belt Instructor Paralyzed Beginner Student From The Neck Down

This accident happened in 2018 when Greener had suffered a debilitating injury to his cervical vertebrae at the hands of his instructor. Since then, Greener was hospitalized for three months and became a quadriplegic.

“The black belt instructor did a technique that placed his entire body weight on Greener’s neck, causing him to instantly fall limp and lose all function of his limbs,” said expert witness Rener Gracie, a w

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