Brooklyn’s courthouses are being rocked by the Williamsburg Effect. The influx of well-off and educated white people to trendy neighborhoods such as Williamsburg is rapidly gentrifying’ the borough’s jury pool — and transforming verdicts, lawyers and judges told The Post. It’s good news for prosecutors in criminal cases — and bad news for plaintiffs in civil lawsuits, they said. The jurors are becoming more like Manhattan — which is not good for defendants,’ noted veteran defense lawyer Julie Clark. High-profile lawyer Arthur Aidala said juries used to be 80 percent people of color, but now grand juries have more of what he calls law-and-order types. They are ... much more trusting of police, Clark said of the jurors. I’m not sure people from the University of Vermont would believe that a police officer would [plant] a gun.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:06:54 +0000
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