{"id":10133,"date":"2014-01-03T11:39:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T11:37:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T11:37:45","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10133","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Without Jury, Judge Warned [in 2012] That Stop-and-Frisk Ruling Would Be Disputed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/03\/nyregion\/without-jury-judge-knew-stop-and-frisk-ruling-would-be-disputed.html?ref=todayspaper\">Without Jury, Judge Warned That Stop-and-Frisk Ruling Would Be Disputed<\/a> by Benjamin Weiser and Joseph Goldstein:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the trial over the New York Police Department\u2019s stop-and-frisk practices just months away, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin expressed concern at the decision by the lawyers who had filed the suit to have her, not a jury, decide the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not the preferable route,\u201d the judge said from the bench in a little-noticed court hearing in late 2012, \u201cbecause whatever the outcome, the criticism will be, \u2018This is one person.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She seemed to believe that a jury of New Yorkers was best to decide the volatile issue of whether the department\u2019s practice violated the Constitution. The ruling of a single judge, she said, would be attacked as \u201cnot a verdict of the community.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10133\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}