Racist NYPD Stop & Frisk Case set for 2013 trial date
/A 2008 Federal civil rights lawsuit stemming from alleged racial bias in the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy is finally going to trial.
Manhattan Federal Court Judge Shira Scheindlin Monday set a March 18, 2013, trial date for the hot-button case which alleges racial profiling in the way the NYPD conducts the stop-and-frisk tactic.
“It’s really time to bring this case to some resolution,” Scheindlin said at conference with lawyers for the city and the Center for Constitutional Rights, which brought the lawsuit.
She said jury selection would begin a week earlier on March 11, but a lawyer for the plaintiffs Darius Charney said he might ask for a non-jury trial.
City attorney Heidi Grossman said the city would not waive its right to a jury.
