Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim of the Southern District of New York. Photo credit:
David Handschuh/NYLJ

For the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, 2017 was a bounce-back year for criminal trials.

According to a spokeswoman for the office, federal prosecutors saw a 61 percent increase in criminal trials in 2017, versus the year before. While only 49 trials were commenced in 2016, prosecutors executed 79 this past year, according to the office.

In a statement provided to the New York Law Journal, acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim called 2017 “an incredibly busy and productive year.”