He closed a Guantánamo “H.I.V. prison camp” and castigated the city over its treatment of poor people with AIDS. A former detective, he had also been a narcotics prosecutor.
Source: New York Times
Sterling Johnson Jr., Former U.S. Judge in Brooklyn, Dies at 88
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