Brooklyn’s courthouses are being rocked by the “Williamsburg Effect.”Read the rest here.
The influx of well-off and educated white people to trendy neighborhoods such as Williamsburg is rapidly “gentrifying’’ the borough’s jury pool — and transforming verdicts, lawyers and judges told The Post.
It’s good news for prosecutors in criminal cases — and bad news for plaintiffs in civil lawsuits, they said.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Brooklyn: Lawyers whine as educated white people "taint" jury pool
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