A federal judge has lamented that federal budget cuts will prevent him from instituting all the measures sought by the prosecution to safeguard jurors he acknowledged would need protection during the trial of gang members charged with murder and other violent acts.

Prosecutors from the Eastern District U.S. Attorney's Office asked Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. (See Profile) to make the jurors anonymous and to partially-sequester them during the trial of four alleged members of the Nine-Trey Gangsters, which operated for 16 years in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]