Brooklyn Law School professor enters fight to bring back stop-and-frisk judge
Retired judges and a number of law professors have submitted legal briefs in support of the reinstatement of Manhattan federal Judge Shira Scheindlin to the stop-and-frisk cases.
A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan had removed Scheindlin, on the grounds that she had made statements in media interviews that jeopardized the appearance of judicial objectivity.
In August, Scheindlin ruled that while not wholly unconstitutional, the New York Police Department’s policy to stop-and-frisk individuals based purely on a mere reasonable suspicion that said persons had committed or were in the process of committing a crime, had been carried out in an unconstitutional manner and targeted an inordinate amount of black and Hispanic males.