The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that a defendant’s prior dismissed adult and juvenile criminal charges may not be used as a reason to deny that defendant admission into a pretrial intervention program.
In a unanimous ruling Jan. 8, the court said using prior charges that had been dismissed to deny a defendant’s admission into PTI amounted to an impermissible inference of guilt with regard to those dismissed charges.
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