BRONX ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY TO SPEND A WEEK AT
PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE IN THE NETHERLANDS IN TRANS-ATLANTIC ‘JOB
SWAP’ CELEBRATING 400 YEARS OF RELATIONS BETWEEN NEW YORK CITY
AND AMSTERDAM
Bronx District Attorney Robert T Johnson announced today that a member of his staff is one of 11 New Yorkers, including firefighters, lawyers, midwives, bartenders and musicians, who’ve been selected to spend a week on the job with their counterparts in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
This “Job Swap” is part of an official Celebration of 400 Years of Relations between Amsterdam and New York City. The relationship between these two cities began in 1609 when Captain Henry Hudson sailed the Dutch ship Halve Maen (Half Moon) into what is now New York harbor.
Assistant District Attorney Amy Litwin, one of the more senior Assistants in the Domestic Violence Bureau, handles homicide cases, serious assaults, and other crimes involving defendants and victims who either had been or still are in relationships with one another. Crimes of domestic violence have been the focus of Litwin’s legal practice ever since she was appointed as an Assistant District Attorney in August 2001.
Prior to her scheduled departure for Amsterdam on Sunday, September 13, 2009, Litwin spent the week hosting fellow prosecutor Alexandra Oswald whom Litwin will in turn ‘shadow during her time at the District Attorney’s office in the Netherlands. Oswald’s week in New York included getting a taste of a routine patrol shift in the Bronx through the NYPD Ride Along Program, observing cases being screened by ADA’s in the Complaint Room, cases moving through court Arraignment and Trial Parts, as well as the process of jury selection. Numerous\ conversations and exchanges of information with judges and other Assistant DA’s were significant components of the ‘Job Swap’ experience in the Bronx and are anticipated to be equally informative as they unfold in Amsterdam.
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