A defendant held for three years before charges were dropped did not show the extraordinary circumstances needed to warrant a deadline relaxation for a suit against prosecutors, a state appeals court held on Aug. 16.
The court, in Sickler v. Office of the Ocean County Prosecutor, A-1879-12, said his frequent relocation in custody, ignorance of the law, lack of access to a law library or loss of his eyeglasses were not enough to warrant a late filing of suit under the Tort Claims Act.
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