A judge expressed her sympathy to the formerly convicted killer of Jam Master Jayfor being stabbed while in lockup at Brooklyn’s infamous Metropolitan Detention Center.
Brooklyn Federal Judge LaShaan DeArcy Hall said she was “genuinely saddened” to hear that Karl Jordan Jr. was assaulted at MDC during a court hearing on Wednesday.
“I was genuinely saddened to hear of the assault that happened to you. That should have never happened. It looks like you are on the mend,” Hall told Jordan, whose conviction for murdering Run-DMS’s Jam Master Jay was overturned in December.
Jordan was hospitalized after being stabbed during a melee at MDC in February 2025, NBC News reported at the time. It is unclear whether Hall was referring to the same attack.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The heartfelt exchange came as Hall ordered Jordan to remain behind bars — despite having his murder case overturned — pending separate drug-related charges.
His lawyers plan to file a bail application next week to work toward releasing Jordan, who has been behind bars since Sept. 2020.
Jordan’s conviction was overturned after Hall ruled there was not enough evidence to say he had a motive to kill his legendary DJ godfather, Jam Master Jay, whose real name is Jason Mizell.
He was convicted alongside Ronald Washingtonby a jury in February 2024 of murdering Mizell inside his Queens music studio more than 20 years ago in revenge over a botched drug deal.
A slew of witnesses testified at the four-week trial, recounting the moment the pair allegedly gunned down Mizell inside his studio in Hollis on Oct. 20, 2002.
Jordan had not yet been sentenced when the conviction was tossed, with Hall stating in a 29-page ruling that prosecutors failed to prove that the shooting was motivated by a drug deal gone wrong when Mizell allegedly stiffed both Washington and Jordan from a lucrative cocaine deal in August 2002.
Brooklyn’s notorious MDC lockup — which houses the likes of accused healthcare-CEO-killer Luigi Mangione and Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro — is “notorious for its dangerous conditions,” the Legal Aid Society said in a press release in June.
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