New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Law Journal Editorial Board | August 15, 2021
Requiring that there be some empirical basis for the assertion that an area is afflicted with high crime rates would be a first step in determining whether use of the concept in Fourth Amendment doctrine is justified by its actual efficacy.
By Suzette Parmley | August 3, 2021
The court said the New Jersey Constitution "is designed to protect individual rights, and it provides greater protection against unreasonable searches and seizures than the Fourth Amendment."
By Charles Toutant | July 21, 2021
"None of my clients has been scheduled to go to court. They haven't been given a date to appear. These people call my office and they want a status report and we have a duty to tell them, but there is no progress," Matthew Reisig, a Freehold attorney, said.
The Legal Intelligencer | Analysis
By Max Mitchell | July 21, 2021
"This is rampant right now," Kathleen Rossello, the Philadelphia Association of Legal Administrators' chapter secretary and office administrator at Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg, said. "I am probably on my eighth claim, and it has happened rather quickly."
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Law Journal Editorial Board | July 19, 2021
What may make Lange especially interesting to New Jersey lawyers is the fact that it was presaged precisely by our Supreme Court back in 1989.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Law Journal Editorial Board | July 19, 2021
In State v. Zakariyya Ahmad, decided June 15, the New Jersey Supreme Court considered the admissibility of a statement given by a 17-year-old defendant…
By Suzette Parmley | July 14, 2021
In "State v. Andujar," the justices upheld last year's Appellate Division decision that overturned defendant Edwin Andujar's conviction, asserting that a prosecutor cannot unilaterally run a criminal background check on a juror without judicial approval.
By Suzette Parmley | July 13, 2021
Less than two weeks after the New Jersey Marijuana Decriminalization Law officially went into effect calling for more lenient penalties for small amounts of possession, the judiciary has vacated or dismissed nearly 88,000 such cases related to certain marijuana and hashish convictions or pending cases.
By Charles Toutant | June 30, 2021
"There's a reason why judges should be very careful to impose this type of penalty," said Daniel Filler, dean of Drexel University Kline School of Law in Philadelphia. "The public is already trying very hard to get out of jury service."
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | June 24, 2021
In a precedential decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that because a warrant for a man suspected of child molestation—which included an assumption that he likely possessed child pornography—was executed in good faith, the nearly 70,000 illegal images obtained by a police search should be admissible as evidence.
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