Impact of government budget cuts felt in Brooklyn Federal Court
The projected tidal wave that federal budget cuts will have on Brooklyn courts has become a reality.
Citing the impact of federal budget cuts, a federal judge has rejected prosecutors’ request to sequester a jury in a murder and racketeering trial in Brooklyn.
Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. said he would keep the jurors’ names secret but wouldn’t take extra measures because the court had to “be mindful of today’s economic climate.”
According to The New York Times, the judge wrote in a 10-page decision that federal sequestration “has forced cuts to the marrow.”