A panel of law professors has been appointed by Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin (See Profile) to assist a court-appointed facilitator in developing remedies in the stop-and-frisk litigation.
One day after denying New York City's request for a stay pending appeal of her appointment of a police department monitor to help develop and implement reforms of stop-and-frisk practices, Scheindlin Wednesday named an Academic Advisory Council chaired by Professor Bennett Capers of Brooklyn Law School to assist facilitator Nicholas Turner of the VERA Institute of Justice.
