In addition to the Supreme Court’s grant of review in a case involving the termination of a contract of sale of residential real estate, discussed here, the Court announced in the last several days that it would review four other ...
State v. Twiggs, 445 N.J. Super. 23 (App. Div. 2016). In this conspiracy to commit robbery case, the Law Division dismissed the indictment because the State began the prosecution beyond the time allowed by the statute of limitations, N.J.S.A. 2C:1-6. ...
State v. Ross, 441 N.J. Super. 120 (App. Div. 2015). This characteristically concise opinion by Judge Fisher involved an order by the Law Division in this criminal case that granted a motion by the Public Defender to compel the County ...
State v. K.P.S., 221 N.J. 266 (2015). Two defendants who had been charged in the same indictment with many of the same crimes sought to suppress certain evidence. The Law Division denied their application. Both defendants were found guilty. Both ...
Thirty five years ago today, the Supreme Court decided State v. Czachor, 82 N.J. 392 (1980). In an opinion by Justice Handler, the Court revolutionized the criminal law by abandoning the so-called “Allen charge,” named for Allen v. United States, ...
State v. Jaffe, 220 N.J. 114 (2014). As discussed here, the first opinion written by a new Justice is generally a unanimous decision in a relatively unexceptional case. Today, Justice Solomon, a former prosecutor, was doubtless in his comfort zone. He issued his ...
Joseph v. United States, ___ U.S. ___ (2014). Most if not all appellate courts have a rule that issues not raised in an opening brief cannot be raised in subsequent filings. That principle makes sense, as Justice Kagan said in ...
Today’s post is another guest post by Jeffrey A. Shooman, my colleague at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC. Riley v. New Jersey State Parole Bd., 219 N.J. 270 (2014). In a 4-3 decision, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that ...
This is another guest post by my colleague at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, Jeffrey A. Shooman: State v. Skinner, 218 N.J. 496 (2014). I’ve blogged before about Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b), which governs the admissibility of prior other or ...
State v. Carreon, 437 N.J. Super. 81 (App. Div. 2014). Courts often say that statutes are “inartfully drafted,” or the like. This opinion that Judge Accurso issued today, however, goes further. In addressing the penalty provisions of N.J.S.A. 39:3-10, which deals ...