The new Brooklyn Misdemeanor Veterans Treatment Court was officially opened Wednesday at 120 Schermerhorn Street.
On hand to mark the opening were, from left, Cameron Mease, veterans defense coordinator, Brooklyn Defender Services; Dawn Ryan, attorney-in-charge, Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn Criminal Defense Office; Mia Santiago, treatment court coordinator; Justice Sherry Klein-Heitler, chief of planning and policy for the Office of Court Administration; Acting Justice Melissa Jackson, administrative judge for New York City Criminal Courts; Criminal Court Judge Craig Walker, presiding judge for the treatment court; Catherine LaPorte, deputy commissioner for the Mayor’s Office of Veterans Affairs and Brooklyn Criminal Court Supervising Judge Michael Yavinsky.
